The Carbon Cycle

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The main source/"beginning" of carbon derives from outgassing volcanic hotspots normally found in midocean ridges. This outgassing carbon can either be the result of the carbon being previously stored within the mantle when Earth was formed or by the metamorphism of carbonate rocks within the ocean crust. Either way, this newly formed carbon can go on to remain as CO2 in the atmosphere, get dissolved by the ocean, form carbonate rocks, or of course, become biomass for living or dead organisms. Thus making up the basis for the carbon cycle.

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As Earth is a closed system, matter must and has constantly reworked it's way through Earth's countless biotic and abiotic compartments in a somewhat "repurposing" process called biogeochemcial cycles. And Carbon, being the main component of all living things and the second must abundant substance on Earth, is obviously not an exception.

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The Carbon Cycle

Works Cited:

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This fossil fuel process, interestingly enough, causes a majority of earth's carbon to get locked up underground.

Animal respiration is when carbohydrates are converted back into water and carbon dioxide, thus returning carbon to the atmosphere. Keep in mind that this form was what kicked off photosynthesis, in other words, recycling the carbon.

But don't worry, the consumer can get it's fair share and die too, and thus get buried, possibly alive, and turned into carbon based fossil fuels like coal and oil after billions of years.. if not devoured by other organisms that is.

Afterward, the plant dies either two horrible ways: Either, the plant gets consumed and the carbon is then transfered to the consumer, OR the plant gets buried, possibly alive, and turned into carbon based fossil fuels like coal and oil after billions of years.

Photosynthetic organisms use energy from the sun to combine carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with water to form carbohydrates, which ultimately store energy for the plant and becoming a part of it.

Fossil fuels, when burned up, release a majority of it's carbon back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

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(Reading didn't explain this, so I'll compensate with this shark)I assume the ocean uptake is referring to the volcanic hotspots releasing carbon to the surface, and root respiration refers to the plants absorbing that said "surface" carbon and ultimately release it back into the atmosphere.