The carbon is in the atmosphere and human and animals body also as carbon dioxide. This plant is taking carbon from the air to make its food. the plant also used the sun light to help them make their food. When the animal eat the fruit or the food made from the plant, the animal store the carbon inside of their body. Then the animal use the carbon to grow. Then bigger animals eat smaller one, and carbon is keeping moving one body to another.
The plant uses carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, the stored carbon as the it grows release in both carbon dioxide and oxygen. Carbon release when the leaves fall and decompose to become part of the soil. Ultimately, the decomposition of the tree and animals focusing consulting all settled on the soil where they get buried in the sediment and moving to different places.
Indeed, all living things breath, and when the animals breath out some of the carbons release back to the air as carbon dioxide. In fact, when the plant or the animal die most of stored carbon goes back to the soil some of them go back to the air, but most of them keep track in the soil.

Hovard,
ReplyDeleteGood job describing the terrestrial carbon cycle. You got 4/4 points. Keep up the good work.
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Shadia