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Best Answer to this Q'n is: repeatedly, and as often as possible [under varying conditions].
Individual carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules spend an average of 3-4 years in the atmosphere (the residence time), before moving on as part of the carbon cycle. However, because CO2 leaving the atmosphere is offset by CO2 from natural carbon sources, it takes a lot longer than this for artificial CO2 increases to dissipate - up to a thousand years. This is called the turnover time, or the global atmospheric lifetime.
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How is carbon cycled from the atmosphere through producers and consumers?
How is carbon cycled from the atmosphere through producers and consumers?
How does carbon cycle through earth's four spheres?
Carbon dioxide constantly moves into and out of the atmosphere through several major pathways. Over short time scales, the processes of photosynthesis, respiration, organic decomposition (decay), and combustion (burning of organic material) increase or decrease the concentration of atmospheric CO2. Carbon dioxide is also exchanged between the atmosphere and oceans by gas exchange over short time scales. Each year, approximately one-fifth of the carbon (in the form of CO2) in the atmosphere is cycled in and out.
What layer of the atmosphere contains almost the most water vapor in the air?
They are found in the troposphere. This is because both water vapor and carbon dioxide are cycled through the atmosphere and the earth. Therefore, their atmospheric components come directly from the earth/ocean which means they will be found in the layer of atmosphere closest to the ground.
What is the only biogeochemical cycle which does not pass through the atmosphere?
Phosphorus. "Unlike many other biogeochemical cycles, the atmosphere does not play a significant role in the movement of phosphorus, because phosphorus and phosphorus-based compounds are usually solids at the typical ranges of temperature and pressure found on Earth." - However, phosphorus WILL cycle through organisms and water. Water does (evaporation and precipitation both include the atmosphere). Carbon does (carbon dioxide is the third most common substance in the atmosphere). Nitrogen does (nitrogen makes up most of the atmosphere; Nitrogen-fixers depend on this fact).
By what two processes is water cycled from land to the atmosphere?
Water in the water cycle enters the atmosphere through the processes of evaporation and transpiration.
Is phosphorus cycled through the earths atmosphere?
phosphorus is not cycled through the earth's atmosphere
How is carbon cycled from the atmosphere through producers and consumers?
How is carbon cycled from the atmosphere through producers and consumers?
An element that is cycled through the atmosphere?
Phosphorus is not cycled through the Earth's atmosphere.
What elements are cycled through the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
Oxygen, water vapor, carbohydrates, and carbon dioxide
How does carbon cycle through earth's four spheres?
Carbon dioxide constantly moves into and out of the atmosphere through several major pathways. Over short time scales, the processes of photosynthesis, respiration, organic decomposition (decay), and combustion (burning of organic material) increase or decrease the concentration of atmospheric CO2. Carbon dioxide is also exchanged between the atmosphere and oceans by gas exchange over short time scales. Each year, approximately one-fifth of the carbon (in the form of CO2) in the atmosphere is cycled in and out.
How is carbon dioxide is cycled between a tree and a fox?
The fox makes it, the plant breaks it apart.
What is the carbon cycle?
The carbon cycle is a process by which carbon is cycled between the atmosphere, land, water and organisms. Carbon enters a short-term cycle in an ecosystem when producers, such as plants, convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into carbohydrates during photosynthesis.The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth
How are oxygen and carbon dioxide cycled in nature?
Both B and C
What environmental problem is due to greenhouse gases?
Global Warming. The carbon cycle puts carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But it also takes the same amount out again, cycled between land, sea and sky. Humans put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels. More of it remains there because we have cut down the great forests of the world. But we don't remove this carbon dioxide. So it is building up, holding back more of the sun's heat, and causing global warming.
What are some possible reasons for the abundance of CO2 in the earths atmosphere?
There is so much carbon dioxide because it is constantly being cycled through the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial systems. It is a crucial component of all life. There has been even more added recently, however, as humans burn fossil fuels containing carbon.
What happens in the carbon dioxide oxygen cycle?
it 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
If earth had no atmosphere would it be lifeless?
Yes. The atmosphere is a vital source of oxygen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide, all of which are necessary components of life. While it is technically not a source of these, it is a very important sink in which these gases are temporarily stored and cycled.
