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Can too much carbon in seawater prevent snails and clams from growing shells?
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What do many organisms take from seawater to make bones or shells?
They take magnesium.
How are conk shells made?
Conch shells, like most all shells, are formed biologically by gastropods. The process happens through the absorption of calcium carbonate from seawater.
What uses the carbon to build their skeletons and shells?
Life on Earth is carbon based, so all animals with skeletons and shells use carbon. A more 'common' element used in skeletons and shells is calcium.
Which rock could be formed either by deposition of animal shells and skeletons or by precipitation from evaporating seawater?
limestone
What will decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the air?
Growing plants Chemical geological processes (happening in the Oceans). Organisms that make calcite shells (that then become buried by geological processes).
Is limestone formed from volcanic ash?
No. Limestone is usually formed from the shells of marine animals or calcite precipitates from seawater.
What is a sedimentary rock that is composed of the mineral calcite which comes from evaporated seawater and animal shells?
Limestone fits the description given.
How did carbon in the atmosphere get into the shells of mussels?
As the ocean takes up CO2 that means that the mussel's who live in the ocean take up some of the carbon dioxide in to there shells.
Does carbon have three electrons in its valence shells yes or no?
No, carbon has 4 valence electrons.
Where do the carbons go after you burn them for energy?
Carbon from burning fuels is released as carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxides is either absorbed in seawater and converted to sea shells or plankton, or absorbed by plants and convrted to sugars. Plant matter (both in the ocean and on land is eaten to become animal flesh or is used for energy and reconverted to carbon dioxide. Some plant matter (trees) is used as renewable fuels and converted to carbon dioxide. The carbon taken out of the system for the longest time becomes limestone or fossil fuels.
Is snails growing shells a chemical changes?
chemical change
What does most of the carbon in fossil fuels exist of?
carbon is an element, so "carbon" can't exist of anything. But the carbon found in fossil fuels are mostly from shells and dead animals or plants, after being exposed to imense heat and presure by stacking layers of sediment, plants and shells
