What the process by which carbon circulates around the earth as plants remove carbon from the atmosphere and animals adds carbon to ther atmosphere?

Answer 1

The Carbon Cycle With decomposition and respiration being the two individual processes you named.
The carbon cycle is very important for all organisms. Carbon Dioxide is all around us and most organisms continually recycle it through the ecosystem. Plants convert the Carbon Dioxide to glucose through photosynthesis. This provides energy for the plants. It moves through the food chain by consumption of the plants and provides energy for the different consumers. Animals recycle carbon dioxide through respiration. The lungs provide gas exchange and releases the carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide is also released into the atmosphere from industrial pollutants.

Answer 2

A process by which carbon circulates around the earth as plants remove carbon from the atmosphere and animals add carbon to the atmosphere is called the carbon cycle. This cycle is very important to living things.

Answer 3

That is a common misconception of the "carbon cycle". Plants remove only a very small portion of the total carbon in our atmosphere. Our Oceans remove most of the carbon dioxide.

Plants tend to eventually give off as much carbon as they consume. The overall net result is eventually zero from plants. The work horse is the cooler Ocean waters.

Plants that are very hard do store carbon for awhile. We refer to this as a carbon sink. They may store this carbon for a very long time if they turn into coal or oil. Eventually this material either decays or is burnt and flows back into our atmosphere.

Answer 4

That would be all a part of the Global Carbon Cycle. There are also Global Water Cycles and Global Nitrogen - and Phosphorus - Cycles.

Answer 5

The process in which carbon circulates from the atmosphere to producers to consumers and back to the atmosphere is called the carbon cycle.

Answer 6

carbon cycle.

Answer 7

carbon cycle.