The Adventures of Carbon
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- Atmosphere to Plants
- We take carbon from the atmosphere to make food and release O2.
- I am Carbon atom. Plants use me to make their food.
- Plants to Animals
- As animals eat us, the carbon in form of CO2 goes into their body.
- Animals to Ground
- As the animals die and form fossil fuels. I get deposited into the ground.
- Photosynthesis: In this process plants form their food by absorbing the atmospheric carbon in the form of carbon dioxide gas and release oxygen gas.
- Ground to Atmosphere
- Respiration: In this process plants and animals respire resulting in breakdown of glucose stored in the plants and animals to release CO2, water and energy.
- Atmosphere to Ocean
- From air, into the water!!
- Decomposition: In this process dead plants and animals get decomposed to release carbon into the environment.
- Conclusion
- Combustion: Burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide gas into the environment as by product.
- As the by product of combustion, I get released into the atmosphere by factories.
- Movement of carbon from the atmosphere to the oceans: The oceans, and other water bodies, soak up about a quarter of the carbon dioxide to form carbonates.
- Thus, the amount of carbon dioxide, so formed, is almost equal to the amount of carbon dioxide consumed & hence, its concentration in air remains same.
- Carbon formed
- Carbon-dioxide consumed
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