Question

Explain what happens in the carbon cycle, giving specific examples of some of the steps.

Answer 1

the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, chiefly involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.

Answer 2

So using that description can you tell me some of the steps involved?

Answer 3

ummmmm

Answer 4

Lol ok here ill help you start

Answer 5

plaese do

Answer 6

So the carbon cycle uses what

Answer 7

(the water cycle uses water) meaning this uses.....

Answer 8

carbon

Answer 9

right. Now carbon comes from what?

Answer 10

carbon dioxide

Answer 11

right. So what uses carbon dioxide as a "life force"?

Answer 12

animals and plants??

Answer 13

well animals breathe oxygen just like us, but yes plants use that. So the first step would be plants having to draw the oxygen from the air right?

Answer 14

yes

Answer 15

Great, now you come up with the rest, jsut continue the cycle

Answer 16

thats the thing i dont know how. thats why i asked

Answer 17

Well once the plants have the carbon dioxide what do they do with it

Answer 18

make it into energy

Answer 19

exactly so thats the second part

Answer 20

next they would use some of that energy right?

Answer 21

Is this right?


Carbon enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide from respiration and combustion.
Carbon dioxide is absorbed by producers to make carbohydrates in photosynthesis.
Animals feed on the plant passing the carbon compounds along the food chain. Most of the carbon they consume is exhaled as carbon dioxide formed during respiration. The animals and plants eventually die.
The dead organisms are eaten by decomposers and the carbon in their bodies is returned to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. In some conditions decomposition is blocked. The plant and animal material may then be available as fossil fuel in the future for combustion.

Answer 22

Actually yes that is ahaha

Answer 23

thanks. i just searched the carbon cycle. do you think you could help me with some more?

Answer 24

Yea

Answer 25

Describe an ecosystem and identify the different trophic levels.



Describe what happens to energy as it is transferred through an ecosystem.

Answer 26

Compare and contrast photosynthesis and cellular respiration.



Explain in detail how photosynthesis follows the law of conservation of mass and the law of conservation of energy.

Answer 27

Explain why photosynthesis is important to the survival of all organisms in an ecosystem

Answer 28

Well photosynthesis is the life force for us it gives us oxygen and takes carbon out of the air

Answer 29

Thank you!

Answer 30

Your welcome

Answer 31

Compare and contrast photosynthesis and cellular respiration.



Explain in detail how photosynthesis follows the law of conservation of mass and the law of conservation of energy.