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    Carbon is the building block of life on Earth and exists in both pure and compound forms. Trees are carbon storage experts - giant sequoia trees can weigh over 1 million kilograms due to carbon fixation in photosynthesis, which transforms carbon dioxide into biomass. The carbon cycle involves photosynthesis, respiration, and biosynthesis and cycles carbon between the atmosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. Fossil fuels were formed from the remains of ancient organisms trapped underground for millions of years. The global carbon cycle supports all life through food webs and the exchange of carbon between organisms and the environment.

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    Carbon is the building block of life on Earth and exists in both pure and compound forms. Trees are carbon storage experts - giant sequoia trees can weigh over 1 million kilograms due to carbon fixation in photosynthesis, which transforms carbon dioxide into biomass. The carbon cycle involves photosynthesis, respiration, and biosynthesis and cycles carbon between the atmosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. Fossil fuels were formed from the remains of ancient organisms trapped underground for millions of years. The global carbon cycle supports all life through food webs and the exchange of carbon between organisms and the environment.

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    Carbon is the building block of life on Earth and exists in both pure and compound forms. Trees are carbon storage experts - giant sequoia trees can weigh over 1 million kilograms due to carbon fixation in photosynthesis, which transforms carbon dioxide into biomass. The carbon cycle involves photosynthesis, respiration, and biosynthesis and cycles carbon between the atmosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. Fossil fuels were formed from the remains of ancient organisms trapped underground for millions of years. The global carbon cycle supports all life through food webs and the exchange of carbon between organisms and the environment.

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    Carbon is the building block of life on Earth and exists in both pure and compound forms. Trees are carbon storage experts - giant sequoia trees can weigh over 1 million kilograms due to carbon fixation in photosynthesis, which transforms carbon dioxide into biomass. The carbon cycle involves photosynthesis, respiration, and biosynthesis and cycles carbon between the atmosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. Fossil fuels were formed from the remains of ancient organisms trapped underground for millions of years. The global carbon cycle supports all life through food webs and the exchange of carbon between organisms and the environment.

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    Carbon Cycle

    Biology Class
    Carbon
    Carbon is the fourth most abundant
    element in the universe and is the
    building block of life on Earth. Carbon
    exists in pure forms such as diamonds or
    graphite or in the millions of different
    Do you know what carbon is?
    kinds of carbon compounds scientists
    have currently identified.

    Pure: Compounds:
    Compounds WITH CARBON
    Organic compound Inorganic compounds
    Trees - The Carbon
    Storage Experts
    In California, some Giant Sequoia trees are more
    than 2000 years old and grow to be over 90 meters
    tall. is the largest tree in the world by volume and
    is estimated to weigh over a million kilograms of
    mass. Where does all that mass come from?

    Have you ever stood next to a tree and


    wondered how this tree got to be so big?
    Trees, like all organisms, grow by
    adding mass (biomass). Carbon is the
    central ingredient in making that new
    biomass.
    In a process called carbon fixation,
    plants transform CO2, an inorganic
    carbon compound into organic carbon
    compounds

    Have you ever stood next to a tree and


    wondered how this tree got to be so big?
    Processes:
    There are three important carbon cycle
    processes that cycle carbon compounds into
    and out of trees, and into storage in biomass:

    1 Photosynthesis 2 Respiration
    i 3 Biosynthesis
    Is the carbon cycle process that Is the key carbon cycle process that Is the key carbon cycle process that
    moves carbon atoms from the air moves carbon atoms out of plants generates gains in biomass.
    into trees and all other plants. into the atmosphere, surrounding Production of new organic carbon
    Carbon atoms move into the soil or water.
    compounds by a living organism.
    biosphere and into most food Process whereby organisms
    webs via this process convert carbohydrates (glucose
    sugar), water and oxygen into
    energy, carbon dioxide and water
    Fossil Fuels
    Formation
    Fossil Fuels
    Energy
    Energy is stored in the
    chemical bonds that hold the
    carbon and hydrogen atoms
    together. When the atoms
    are rearranged in the
    combustion reaction, bonds
    are broken and new bonds
    formed, releasing energy.
    When soil microbes (bacteria and
    Food web and fungi) decompose dead material, they
    Carbon cycle break down larger carbon compounds
    into smaller compounds. This process
    The global carbon cycle releases CO2 to the surrounding soil
    cannot exist without and to the atmosphere in a process
    plants, animals and the called soil respiration
    food webs they Soil microbes move carbon down into
    support. the soil where it can be stored for
    hundreds of years.
    Role of Phytoplankton
    Phytoplankton are the foundation
    of the aquatic food web, the Through photosynthesis,
    primary producers, feeding
    phytoplankton consume
    everything from microscopic,
    animal-like zooplankton to multi- carbon dioxide on a scale
    ton whales. Small fish and equivalent to forests and
    invertebrates also graze on the
    plant-like organisms, and then
    other land plants.
    those smaller animals are eaten by
    bigger ones.
    Carbon Carbon footprints measure
    how much carbon dioxide (CO2)

    Footprint we produce just by going


    about our daily lives

    Grams of CO2 equivalents – the


    amount of carbon dioxide emitted
    during the production of each
    object. If other greenhouses gases
    are produced, they are tabulated
    as the amount of CO2 that would
    produce the same amount of
    warming.
    Greenhouse Effect
    GREENHOUSE
    GASES

    Greenhouse gases
    regulate the
    temperature of Earth's
    lower atmosphere via
    the greenhouse effect
    Greenhouse Effect
    Without a greenhouse
    effect, Earth's climate
    would be cold like Mars,
    with an average
    surface temperature
    surface of about -15
    degrees Celsius. With a
    temperature so cold, all
    water on Earth would
    freeze and life as we
    know it would not exist.
    Greenhouse Effect
    With a very strong
    greenhouse effect,
    Earth's climate could
    be more like that of
    Venus where
    temperatures are
    around 420 degrees
    Celsius. Most living
    organisms we are
    familiar with could not
    exist in a climate this
    hot.

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