Carbon Cycle Flashcards
1
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Combustion
A
The burning of something with the presence of oxygen
2
Q
Photosynthesis
A
How plants turn CO2 into ad water into glucose and oxygen
3
Q
Respiration
A
How animals breathe using glucose and oxygen and produce CO2 and water
4
Q
Eruptions
A
When volcanoes produce gas and ash into the atmosphere
5
Q
Ventalilation
A
When CO2 is released from the oceans into the atmosphere
6
Q
Compaction
A
When CO2 is compressed into coral
7
Q
Acidification
A
a reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extended period of time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.
8
Q
Diffusion
A
When carbon dioxide passes from the hydrosphere and the atmosphere and vice versa
9
Q
Phytoplasma
A
Small microorganisms that live in water that take in carbon.
