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Carbon Dioxide is certainly part of the cycle of life. It is used by plants to create their food and expire oxygen. All plants and life are based on carbon. All fossil based fuel is also made from carbon. This fuel would sit on the ground and become what is know as a carbon sink. This means that it is carbon that is not free to be in the air. Carbon Dioxide is found in the air and comes from any organic material that is burnt or rots. Trees that die give off the same amount of CO2 of they rot or are burned for fuel.
Today, man produces a large amount of CO2 by burning fossil fuels. Some estimates are that man produces up to 6% of all CO2 emissions. Some of that is from material that would have rotted or burnt naturally. Some believe that CO2 levels have risen in our atmosphere by as much as 0.007% in total atmospheric concentrations since 1850. This is based on historical data from the Antarctic and comparing that data with current numbers in cities and airports around the world. The number, is at best questionable.
Some also believe that the current levels of CO2 (now at 0.037%) is causing an increase in temperatures around the world. The planet does show warming over the past 6000 years. Most of that (10.7 degrees) is before we ever burnt any fuels. CO2 has always followed temperature due to the absorption ability of our largest CO2 sinks (The Oceans). CO2 follows temperature by roughly 800 years.
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∙ 8y agoIt is when we breath out carbon dioxide and plants absorb it and use it to make food then we get oxygen and give out carbon dioxide that is how it goes.
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What cycle involves photosynthesis and respiration?
No cycle. Transpiration is part of the water cycle, and photosynthesis is what plants do to feed themselves.Carbon cycle involves both of them. Photosynthesis remove Carbon from atmosphere. Respiration release them back
Explain kerb cycle?
removes carbon dioxide molecules from glucose
During what cycle do a series of reactions occur in the mitochondria which release carbon dioxide?
Citric acid cycle
Where is carbon dioxide produced in respiration?
In aerobic respiration, carbon dioxide is produced as a bi-product of the Kreb's cycle (also known as the TCA cycle)
What provides the carbon that are incorporated into sugar molecules in the Calvin cycle?
carbon dioxide
Explain how the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle goes on and on in a forest ecosystem?
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What is the oxygen carbon dioxide cycle?
The carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle is the cycle in which living things (such as plants and animals) take in "oxygen" and let out "carbon dioxide."
What is oxygen carbon dioxide cycle?
Oxygen-Carbon Dioxide Cycle- a continuous exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide by plants and animals including human
What is carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle?
Oxygen-Carbon Dioxide Cycle- a continuous exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide by plants and animals including human
What cycle involves photosynthesis and respiration?
No cycle. Transpiration is part of the water cycle, and photosynthesis is what plants do to feed themselves.Carbon cycle involves both of them. Photosynthesis remove Carbon from atmosphere. Respiration release them back
What molecule is regenerated in the Calvin cycle?
Carbon dioxide
What role do carbon dioxide play in the carbon dioxide oxygen cycle?
animals and people breath out carbon dioxide and plants use carbon dioxide
Where does the Carbon for the Calvin Cycle come from what substance?
The source of carbon for the Calvin cycle is carbon dioxide.
Where is each compound made in the oxygen carbon dioxide cycle?
where is each compound made in the oxygen carbon dioxide cycle
What is the rule of plants in the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle?
plants are the sinks of carbon dioxide and releases oxygen it is cycle process
How does the carbon cycle affect mangroves?
With carbon dioxide.
Carbon fixation involves the addition of carbon dioxide to what?
In the Calvin cycle, carbon dioxide is added to RuBP.
