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How is carbon cycled through living and nonliving things in an ecosystem?
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∙ 14y ago
Energy "flows" through the ecosystem in the form of carbon-carbon bonds. When respiration occurs, the carbon-carbon bonds are broken and the carbon is combined with oxygen to form carbon dioxide. This process releases the energy, which is either used by the organism (to move its muscles, digest food, excrete wastes, think, etc.) or the energy may be lost as heat. "Respiration", which to the layperson usually refers to "breathing", means "the extraction of energy from carbon-carbon bonds at the cellular level" to most scientists (except those scientists studying breathing, who use respiration in the lay sense). The dark arrows represent the movement of this energy. Note that all energy comes from the sun, and that the ultimate fate of all energy in ecosystems is to be lost as heat. Energy does not recycle!!
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agothrough fossil fuels, photosynthesis, carbon oxygen cycle, nitrogen cycle
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∙ 14y agoit is burned by fossil fules ( <-- non-living part) then the trees soak it up and plants then the animals eat it ( living part)
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Why is carbon cycled more slowly in northern ecosystems than in the tropics?
Carbon is cycled more slowly in northern ecosystems than the tropics because the tropics have more plants and animals. That means that the carbon is more quickly exchanged throughout organisms.
What are 4 substances that can be cycled between the living and nonliving environment?
There are many elements that cycle through the environment, but the ones you are probably asking about would be Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen.
What essential nutrients are cycled in the chaparral ecosystem?
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What is the carbon cycle?
The carbon cycle is a process by which carbon is cycled between the atmosphere, land, water and organisms. Carbon enters a short-term cycle in an ecosystem when producers, such as plants, convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into carbohydrates during photosynthesis.The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth
What elements are cycled through the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
Oxygen, water vapor, carbohydrates, and carbon dioxide
How is carbon cycled from the atmosphere through producers and consumers?
How is carbon cycled from the atmosphere through producers and consumers?
How does nitrogen cycle through ecosystem?
The major elements cycled in nature are carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur, and oxygen which forms part of all the cycles.
What is cycled through an ecosystem from organisms to the environment and back again?
Chemicals/Nutrients
Describe why nitrogen must cycle through an ecosystem?
Nitrogen must be cycled through an ecosystem so that the nitrogen is available for organisms to make proteins.
Is phosphorus cycled through the earths atmosphere?
phosphorus is not cycled through the earth's atmosphere
Why Chemical changes that takes place as energy and matter are cycled through an ecosystem result in what?
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Why is carbon cycled more slowly in northern ecosystems than in the tropics?
Carbon is cycled more slowly in northern ecosystems than the tropics because the tropics have more plants and animals. That means that the carbon is more quickly exchanged throughout organisms.
What are 4 substances that can be cycled between the living and nonliving environment?
There are many elements that cycle through the environment, but the ones you are probably asking about would be Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen.
What essential nutrients are cycled in the chaparral ecosystem?
i9 dont know
An element that is cycled through the atmosphere?
Phosphorus is not cycled through the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the carbon cycle?
The carbon cycle is a process by which carbon is cycled between the atmosphere, land, water and organisms. Carbon enters a short-term cycle in an ecosystem when producers, such as plants, convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into carbohydrates during photosynthesis.The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth
What elements are cycled through the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
Oxygen, water vapor, carbohydrates, and carbon dioxide
