slow and fast cycle

Question 1

what is the slow cycle

Answer 1

carbon takes between 100-200 million years to move between rocks, soils, oceans and atmosphere

Question 2

what happens in the slow cycle in the atmosphere to lithosphere

Answer 2

• begins with rain
• atmospheric carbon reacts with water to form acid, falling as rain
• dissollves rocks

Question 3

what happens in slow cycle in the oceans

Answer 3

• calcium bicarbonate is made by shell building

- when organisms die, sink to the ocean floor and ovettime turn into rocks

Question 4

how does the slow cycle return carbon to the atmosphere

Answer 4

through volcanoes

Question 5

what is the fast cycle

Answer 5

• more carbon moves through this

- during photosynthesis, plants absorb co2 and create fuel