Carbon Cycle
Plants and animals become soil via
decomposition
They reflect a portion of incoming solar radiation from above
clouds
The white material in shells
calcium carbonate
Protective layer within the stratosphere.
Ozone layer
Increasing temperatures on earth cause changes to long term weather patterns
climate change
Living beings exchange carbon with the atmosphere via
cellular respiration
The measure of surface reflectivity
albedo
As pH decreases [H+]
increases
As altitude decreases, temperature increases
The troposphere
This form of light cannot be seen but can be felt as heat
infrared
Autotrophs produce glucose and oxygen gas and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via
photosynthesis
When incoming energy and outgoing energy are equal earth's energy budget is
balanced
Cycling calcium carbonate by mollusks and plankton
Carbonate Pump
Where space meets earth's atmosphere. Some ignore it's existence.
Exosphere
A greenhouse gas not created by nature
CFCs
Eons underground transforms organic matter into a category of carbon based fuels and extracted from earth.
Fossil Fuels
The color that absorbs everything
black
Organic carbon travels from the surface to deep ocean, upwelled and released back to the atmosphere.
Biological Pump
The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
Climate
A natural product of soil bacteria
N2O or nitrous oxide
carbon dioxide is absorbed by the oceans creating
carbonic acid or H2CO3
The percentage of energy received from the sun that is long wave energy
zero
Natural calcium carbonate in the ocean buffers the ocean from large pH changes
Ocean Buffering System
Water vapor released through plant respiration is known as
Transpiration
Human caused carbon emissions
Anthropogenic emissions