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    The document discusses the carbon cycle and how carbon is exchanged between different reservoirs on Earth. It also describes how plants perform photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen using energy from sunlight. The glucose is then used by plants through cellular respiration to release energy, producing carbon dioxide and water. This exchange of carbon between photosynthesis and respiration is one of the natural processes that moves carbon between reservoirs.

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    The Carbon Cycle


    ● All living things contain carbon.
    ● Carbon dioxide contains carbon.
    ● Carbon dioxide makes up only 0.04% of the gases in the atmosphere. It is from this that all
    plants get their carbon they need in order to grow.
    ● An example is a tall oak tree. It has a large portion of matter in the tree which is composed of
    carbon and it all came from the atmosphere.
    ● The world’s forests are biotic reservoirs of carbon.
    ● Oceans are abiotic carbon reservoirs.
    ● Carbon dioxide dissolves in water.
    ● Marine organisms use the carbon from the dissolved carbon dioxide to build their tissues.
    ● Many natural processes move between these various carbon reservoirs which are photosynthesis
    and respiration.

    Energy Flows Through Ecosystems


    ● The Earth’s ecosystems main source of energy is the Sun.
    ● The sunlight that reaches Earth is absorbed by the substance that causes plant leaves to be green is
    called chlorophyll.
    ● Plants use chlorophyll to capture the energy in sunlight and convert it into chemical energy.

    Photosynthesis
    ● Plants absorb the chemical carbon dioxide gas and combine it chemically with water to produce a
    third chemical called glucose.
    ● Glucose is a form of sugar which are carbohydrates.
    ● Carbohydrates contain energy.

    Chemical Equation:

    6 CO2 + 6 H2O + light --> C6H12O6 + 6 O2

    Word Equation:

    carbon dioxide + water + light energy --> glucose (sugar) + oxygen


    Cellular Respiration
    ● Is the process plants use to obtain the energy from the glucose.
    ● Plants store the energy they capture from the Sun through photosynthesis in the form of glucose.
    ● Plants need a continuous supply of energy to perform functions such as growth, repair of tissues
    and reproduction.
    ● Glucose combines chemically with oxygen from the air in order to create the products of the
    equation.

    Chemical Equation:

    C6H12O6 + 6 O2 --> 6 H2O + 6 CO2

    Word Equation:

    glucose (sugar) + oxygen --> water + carbon dioxide

    ● Plants use the energy released by cellular respiration to run all the processes inside their cells.
    ● Animals also carry out cellular respiration.
    ● They cannot carry out photosynthesis so they must obtain glucose by eating food containing
    carbohydrates.
    ● Breathing supplies oxygen needed for cellular respiration.

    Process Reactants Products

    carbon dioxide sugar


    Photosynthesis
    water oxygen

    light energy

    sugar carbon dioxide


    Respiration
    oxygen water

    light energy

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