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Carbon dioxide is naturally absorbed (through photosynthesis) and stored in trees and vegetation. It is also absorbed and stored in the oceans.
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Forests are considered carbon storage sinks because?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is removed from the atmosphere (absorbed by trees), and the carbon is stored as sugar molecules. A forest is trees in abundance; and carbon is significant for energy, is significant to life.
Carbon is stored in the atmosphere in the form of what molecule?
You think probable to carbon dioxide.
All living things contain carbon What happens to the carbon in their bodies when they die?
Most of it ends up as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Most dead bodies are decomposed by various types of microbe, which means they are used for respiration to release energy: carbon compounds + oxygen = carbon dioxide plus water. This is an oversimplification of the complex changes that go on. The carbon dioxide is then absorbed by vegetation and sea algae and turned back into large, carbon based molecules, releasing oxygen. The (very rare) exception is when a large amount of dead forest was buried (such as after the Carboniferous period) and oxygen was excluded, so instead of bacteria eating it, it fossilised into coal. Carbon is also stored in the form of oil when most microscopic sea life died and sank to the bottom, and was buried. Much of this stored carbon has been burned in the last 2 centuries (a very short time) and this, together with deforestation, has shifted the equilibrium of the carbon cycle.
Does respiration decrease or increase the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Respiration (breathing) has no effect on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Breathing is part of the carbon cycle. We take in carbon in our food and drink and we release it again when we breathe. If we eat too much, the extra carbon is stored in our bodies, making us fatter, in much the same way as a tree stores carbon in its wood as it grows.So breathing does not increase or decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
How long is carbon stored in a tree?
Trees remove carbon dioxide from the air releasing the oxygen and retaining the carbon as sugar and cellulose. The cellulose is used to form wood and leaves. The sugar fuels the trees cellular growth and seed formation. The carbon is stored as wood (in the tree itaelf) and in the fallen leaves as humus or carbon in the soil.
Forests are considered carbon storage sinks because?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is removed from the atmosphere (absorbed by trees), and the carbon is stored as sugar molecules. A forest is trees in abundance; and carbon is significant for energy, is significant to life.
Oceans are a reservoir for carbon stored as?
Dissolved Carbon dioxide
Is carbon stored in the biosphere in the oceans as dissolved carbon dioxide?
Yes, it is.
Carbon is stored in the atmosphere in the form of what molecule?
You think probable to carbon dioxide.
In what type of compound is carbon stored in the ocean?
carboate (co32-) and carbon dioxide (co2)
What do plants remove from the air during photosynthesis?
Plants remove carbon dioxide during photosynthesis!
Where is Mars CO2 stored?
The atmosphere of Mars contain 95,32 % carbon dioxide. In the polar zones carbon dioxide is as dry ice.
What do you breathe in and out?
You breathe in air, which is comprised mostly of nitrogen (though the oxygen is what you're after).The oxygen is absorbed into the blood, and stored in red blood cells, which contain hemoglobin.The oxygen in your lungs is thus replaced mainly by carbon dioxide, which is a metabolic waste product, and this is what you breathe out.
When trees die do they release stored up carbon dioxide?
Well, trees don't really store carbon dioxide; they use the carbon dioxide directly to produce sugars during the Calvin cycle. When decomposers eat up those sugars, they release the carbon in the sugars in the form of carbon dioxide.
The important cycle in nature that depends on photosynthesis is the?
The Carbon Cycle. Carbon is taken from Carbon Dioxide in the air to stored as sugar in the plant.
What applications if any is the carbon by product of burning organic material useful?
Carbon dioxide can be stored and used in industry.
Why is carbon dioxide able to be stored more effectively in ocean water than in fresh water?
Carbon dioxide is able to be stored more effectively in ocean water than in fresh water because the salt accumulates in ocean water.
