Major stores: Lithosphere

Question 1

Overview

Answer 1

Includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, constitutes the hard and rigid outer layer of the earth

Stored in both inorganic and organic forms

Question 2

Inorganic

Answer 2

Include fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas

Carbonate based sedimentary deposits like limestone

Question 3

Organic

Answer 3

include litter, organic matter and humid substances found in soils

Question 4

Stored as

Answer 4

Marine sediments and sedimentary rocks contain up to 100 million GtC

Soil organic matter contains between 1,500 and 1,600 GtC

Fossil fuels= 4,100 GtC

Peat (dead but undecayed organic matter)= 250 GtC