Carbon Cycle Processes

These flashcards cover key concepts related to the carbon cycle processes, including combustion, burial and compaction, carbon sequestration, and weathering.

What is the process that releases stored carbon as CO2 during combustion in wildfires?

COMBUSTION

What does burial and compaction in the rock cycle involve?

The process where dead organic matter, like plants and shells, is buried by sediments over millions of years, leading to fossil fuels and carbonate rocks formation.

How does carbon sequestration occur in the lithosphere?

Through the long-term storage of carbon, such as when oceans dissolve CO2 and form limestone.

What is the role of weathering in the carbon cycle?

Chemical weathering of carbonate and silicate rocks by rainwater removes carbon from the atmosphere and stores it in oceans as bicarbonates.

What are the main components involved in transferring carbon through the carbon cycle?

Biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere.