Carbon Flashcards
Name the 3 types of pumps in the biological cycle?
-Biological Pump - Surface/deep oceans - including sea floor through plants and phytoplankton
-Carbonate Pump - Organisms cycle through the oceans - utilised by shell building organisation
-Physical Pump- physical movements of water
Which part of earth holds the most carbon in the Carbon Cycle?
Earths Crust (Sedimentary Rocks/Mostly)
What are stores measured in?
Carbon PcG
What are Fluxes Measured in?
PgC per year
Example of stores?
Earths Crust, Oceans, Atmosphere, Fossil Fuels
Example of Fluxes?
Photosynthesis, plant respiration, litterfall, fossil fuel combustion and land use change.
How does Earth have a way of regulating its temperature?
EARTH WARMS - More Evaporation - More precip - more CO2 dissolved in rain water - less co2 - less GH
EARTH THEN COOLS - Less evaporation - less precip - less co2 dissolved in rainwater - More CO2 in atmosphere - GH - WARMING
What does SEQUESTERING mean?
The natural Storage of carbon by physical or biological processes such as Photosynthesis
What percentage of carbon containing rock in the ocean is from marine Organism
80%
Explain how continental collision have an effect on carbon cycle?
Shells are lithified - into rocks such as Limestone - in continental collision - limestone is folded up - rain falls on mountains - dissolving the limestone rock - washing it into the rivers and back into oceans
How is natural resources made?
Natural Gas and Oil?
Examples?
When organic matter builds faster than it is decaying
Natural Gas from tiny aquatic animals and plants
Oil remains of trees/ferns and other plants
Peat / Lignite / Sub-Bituminous /Bitumious / Anthracite
Increase in carbon and energy content
What are the three types of pumps in the ocean?
- Ocean Biological Carbon Pump - Surfaces though surface/deep oceans
- Ocean Carbonate Pump - how inorganic carbon is cycled through the oceans (Shell building org)
- Ocean Physical Pump - Physical movements of water (Up welling)
