Plants/Animals
Reservoirs
Sediments and Sedimentory Rocks
Hydrosphere
Human causes
100
The proccess of plants taking the CO2 in the air, and combining with water and the sun to form carbohydrates.
What is Photosynthesis?
100
A plant has inhaled energy from the atmosphere and Carbon Dioxide in the air (photosynthesis) What two reservoirs are these examples of...
Atmosphere to Biosphere
100
The Carbon Cycle overlaps with this cycle.
What is the Rock Cycle?
100
What happens to carbon at the surface of the ocean?
While carbon dioxide crosses the ocean it dissolves into the water.
100
The process of burning organic material and releasing energy (CO2)
What is Combustion?
200
What happens to carbon when animals eat?
Their bodies' acid breaks apart the carbon bonds
200
Carbon in the air, has dissolved into the ocean. What two reservoirs are these examples of...
Atmosphere to Hydrosphere
200
The process of heating limestone maikng it break apart, producing carbon dioxide and calcium oxide, or lime, which is used to make
cement.
What is Oxidation?
200
Does H2O have Carbon?
No
200
What happens to carbon when Mining/Drilling occurs?
Large amounts of carbon are brought to Earth's surface.
300
What happens to carbon when animals excrete?
The carbon that was in the animals body is excreted into the soil and decomposes.
300
Sediments have been forming underground to make rocks. What two reservoirs are these examples of...
Lithosphere to Lithosphere
300
What happens to carbon that is trapped in Sediments?
They can form coal and oils.
300
The process of a solute dissolving into a solvent (water) to make a solution.
What is Dissultion?
300
The process of the removal of dissolved gases from liquids.
What is desgasification?
400
What happens to carbon during respiration?
CO2 is inhaled by the body and circulates by the lungs and then exhaled back into the atmosphere.
400
Carbon on rock sediments dissolve into the ocean. What two reservoirs are these examples of...
Lithosphere to Hydrosphere
400
The proccess of rain slowly dissolving minerals (calcium carbonate) from rocks.
What is Chemical Weathering?
400
The process by which certain ions in the water turn into solid under certain conditions.
What is Preciptaion?
400
How does coal and other fossil fuels gain carbon?
Carbon is locked into the debris of once living things that are proccessed into coal.
500
The process by which organic substances are broken down into simpler matter.
What is decompostion?
500
When Humans burn fossil fuels CO2 is released in the air. What two reservoirs are these examples of...
Lithosphere to Atmosphere
500
Sediments containing this form of carbon, can be turned into rock over millions of years. (same carbon that is in shells)
What is Calcium Carbonate?
500
Carbon accumalates and is carried in this part of the ocean for hundreds of years. (or lost in sediments)
What is Deep Ocean?
500
What does carbon do to help the earth? (The actual planet)
Carbon Dioxide keeps the sun's heat around earth's atmosphere. (Prevents heat from leaving the atmosphere)