Marine food webs that hold carbon consist of these three groups of organisms.
What are Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers?
Basic process plants use to make their own food using carbon and sunlight
Photosynthesis
Main cause of human carbon footprint
What is Burning of Fossil Fuels?
Carbon is held in both dolomite and this type of sedimentary rock.
What is Limestone?
Process by which cells work and give off carbon as a waste product which is then released back into the atmosphere
Respiration
Movement of humans through vehicles
What is Transportation?
Living organisms that sequester carbon
What are Producers?
Process by which carbon is released into the ocean from air flowing over it.
What is Diffusion?
Mass removal of trees
What is Deforestion?
Largest reservoir of carbon on Earth
What is Ocean?
Process by which dead organisms are broken down and carbon is released into the soil.
What is Decomposition?
Global warming adds to the dryness of the planet increasing the likelihood of this
What is Forest Fire?
Reservoir of carbon that affects the ozone layer
What is Atmosphere?
Over long periods of time carbon in the soil from decomposition is subject to great heat and pressure and turned into fossil fuels, such as coal and oil.
What is Compaction?
Largest user of fossil fuels in the United States
What is United States Military?