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What does burning fossil fuels and cellular respiration have in common?
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Both release carbon into the atmosphere, but burning fossil fuels releases CO2 at a much greater amount. Both cellular respiration and combustion require a core fuel for the process to happen at all. This fuel is stored energy, and the entire process of combustion or respiration is to convert that energy from its stored state -- in the fuel -- to another state that the engine, either mechanical or bionic, can use to power its other operations. While fossil fuels and sugar molecules have very different structures, they both have a series of molecular bonds that the energy harvesting process will break apart.
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How is carbon dioxide returned the atmosphere?
Cellular respiration by producers and consumers returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.-Cellular respiration-Volcanic eruptions-Human interference (burning of fossil fuels)
How is carbon dioxide returned to the. atmosphere?
Cellular respiration by producers and consumers returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.-Cellular respiration-Volcanic eruptions-Human interference (burning of fossil fuels)
Is the reduction of carbon to carbon dioxide a result from releasing energy in both cellular respiration and burning of fossil fuels?
It is not a reduction.It is an oxidation.Yes it releases energy.
How does carbon dioxide go back in the atmosphere?
Cellular respiration by producers and consumers returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.-Cellular respiration-Volcanic eruptions-Human interference (burning of fossil fuels)
How do particles get into the atmosphere?
From burning fossil fuels. Decay and respiration too.
How do carbon particles get into the atmosphere?
From burning fossil fuels. Decay and respiration too.
What is the most common type of energy used?
The main fuel of molecules use in cellular respiration is glucose. The main function of the cellular respiration is hydrogen and its bonding electrons change partners.Carbohydrates, fats and proteins are all consumed as fuel in cellular respiration.
How is carbon returned back to the atmosphere?
Removed from the air by plants, When they die, CO2 is released from the plant structure as it rots (or is burned) and returns to the air.Cellular respiration by producers and consumers returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.-Cellular respiration-Volcanic eruptions-Human interference (burning of fossil fuels)
How is cellular respiration by plants similar to the burnimg of fossil fuels?
Both of them release energy. Both need oxygen and release CO2
Describe the cycling of carbon in the carbon cycle?
The two processes of the carbon cycle are photosynthesis and cellular respiration. In photosynthesis carbon from carbon dioxide is fixed into carbohydrates. In cellular respiration, carbohydrates are broken down to form ATP and carbon in the form of carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.
How does carbon get into the atmosphere?
Carbon gets back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide through the combustion of fossil fuels, and the cellular respiration of living things.
What is the source of carbon for respiration?
Sources of carbon dioxide are from the burning of fossil fuels from both cars and factories. Also, volcanic vents add a large amount of carbon dioxide to our atmosphere.
