Question

Explain how carbon is cycled between the hydrosphere and geosphere. Use specific examples.

someone please help me out

Answer 1

@Whitemonsterbunny17 can you help me out on this im having trouble

Answer 2

The answer on this one should be what you're looking for:
http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/505bbfd6e4b03290a415be97

Answer 3

Let me know if that was helpful =^_^=

Answer 4

yea it kinda helped

Answer 5

Yay!! (:

Answer 6

@Whitemonsterbunny17 Explain how carbon is cycled between the hydrospher im having trouble writing 2 sentences about this.

Answer 7

Did the other answer help? or do you just need me to make sentences out of it?

Answer 8

for geosphere it helped but for hydrospher not really

Answer 9

ohhh.. then idk. do you have a textbook you could look through? :s

Answer 10

no :(

Answer 11

Here, this might help: I found from http://05lovesgeography.blogspot.com/2011/01/carbon-cycle_22.html

Linking carbon cycle to the hydrosphere.
1. Extreme storms (e.g. hurricanes and typhoons) --> sediments will be washed away into the oceans --> carbon/calcite minerals will be buried under ocean bed --> deposition and burial of carbon/calcite --> limestone formed --> (refer to the cycle written in the section before )
2. (Convection Current concept needed) Oceanic upwell (meaning warm oceanic water rises, cold water sinks) --> cold water on oceanic surface allows carbon from heated limestone (from subduction) and and ocean floor to be released into the atmosphere
Oceanic downwell (inverse of oceanic upwell) --> carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will be converted to dissolved carbon in oceanic water. Atmospheric carbon --> dissolved carbon dioxide.
3. Dissolved carbon dioxide reacts with water to form carbonic acid
Carbonic acid will be in equilibrium (meaning 'reversible') with hydrogen ions + bicarbonate ions when the acid reacts with weathered rocks
Bicarbonate ions will be in equilibrium with hydrogen ions + carbonate ions
Carbonate ions + calcium carbonate (from shells of oceanic microorganisms like phytoplankton) will form carbonate sediments (which form limestone)
4. (Only under certain geological conditions) Organic matter buried --> (over time) deposits of carbon-containing fuels coal and oil formed (remember black smoker and uncontrolled deep-water oil well leak?). Non-calcium containing organic matter is transformed into fossil fuel.
Note: Calcium carbonate is an inorganic carbon.

Answer 12

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Answer 13

Thats the only other thing i could find about it.. lol :p