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- 1 What is the carbon and oxygen cycle?
- 2 What are two differences between the carbon and water cycles?
- 3 How do oxygen and carbon cycle between living things and the environment?
- 4 Which two processes are involved in both the oxygen cycle and the carbon cycle?
- 5 Why oxygen and carbon cycle is important?
- 6 Why is the carbon oxygen cycle important?
What is the carbon and oxygen cycle?
When they’re exposed to light, green plants use carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to manufacture living matter and release oxygen into the air. This process is called photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide is produced through the respiration of animals and plants, which consume oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
What are two differences between the carbon and water cycles?
Explanation: The water cycle is a physical phenomenon. Simply water is evaporated from the environment or from the surface of plants by transpiration. Mainly the carbon cycle is mediated by photosynthesis and respiration by organisms.
How do oxygen and carbon cycle between living things and the environment?
Respiration uses oxygen and releases carbon dioxide. Photosynthesis allows plants to make food while respiration allows plants and animals to get energy from their food. The carbon dioxide–oxygen cycle maintains the balance of these gases within the atmosphere so all plants and animals have what they need to survive.
What are three ways that the carbon cycle is similar to the water cycle?
The Carbon and Water cycles are linked together in many ways such as;
- Ocean-atmosphere interchange – physical and biological pumps.
- Volcanic outgassing of both water and carbon transfer them from the lithosphere to the atmosphere.
What is oxygen cycle and its importance?
The oxygen cycle is the cycle that helps move oxygen through the three main regions of the Earth, the Atmosphere, the Biosphere, and the Lithosphere. This also has some free oxygen produced from photosynthesis and other life processes. The largest reservoir of oxygen is the lithosphere.
Which two processes are involved in both the oxygen cycle and the carbon cycle?
Both cellular respiration and photosynthesis are involved in the carbon cycle and the oxygen cycle. They both require carbon and oxygen in order to complete their mechanisms of action. During photosynthesis, carbon is taken by the plant and converted into energy. As a result, oxygen is released.
Why oxygen and carbon cycle is important?
The carbon dioxide and oxygen cycle is critical to life on Earth. Humans, and most other organisms, need oxygen to survive. That is why it is so important to help someone who cannot breathe by providing them with oxygen. Plants and other organisms that perform photosynthesis rely on animals for carbon dioxide.