Iron Fertilization

Question 1

Name the three carbon pumps

Answer 1

Carbonate pump, biological soft tissue pump, thermal gas exchange pump

Question 2

Thermal gas exchange pump

Answer 2

Cold high latitude water take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sink to greater depths

Question 3

Soft tissue pump

Answer 3

Organic matter produced i surface ocean is exported to the deep sea where it is consumed and adds respired carbon dioxide to the drop sea

Question 4

Carbonate pump

Answer 4

Calcium carbonate production by foraminifers, coccolithophores, and pteropods; sinking shells dissolve in the water column or sediment and release bicarbonate, only a small fraction of th shells get buried in the sediment