Human Impact on Carbon Cycle - PDF

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Human Impact on Carbon Cycle - PDF

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Running head: HUMAN IMPACT ON CARBON CYCLE1Human Impact on Carbon CycleNameInstitution

2HUMAN IMPACT OF CARBON CYCLEHuman impact on the carbon cycleThis report is about the human impact on the carbon cycle and global warming.The Carbon cycleThe carbon cycle is the procedure through which carbon is transferred from the atmosphere to the earth and then back to the atmosphere. It is a process that maintains life on earth by recycling carbon in the atmosphere. Carbon gets into the atmosphere through cellular respiration and burning of fossil fuels and is absorbed by the primary producers (plants) to make their own food through photosynthesis with the release of oxygen. Cellular respiration and photosynthesis are the main processes in the carbon cycle. Cellular respiration is the process through which animals break down glucose to energy in the form of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) while photosynthesis is a process through which plants transform light energy from the sun to energy in the form of sugars in the presence of carbon (IV) oxide. Cellular respiration and photosynthesis have some similarity in that they both involve the production of energy, exchangeof gases and both take place in cell organelles. They are however different in that photosynthesis takes place at the chloroplast in plants while cellular respiration takes place in the mitochondria in animals. Also, in photosynthesis, carbon (IV) oxide is used to produce energy with the release of oxygen while in respiration oxygen is used to produce energy with the release of carbon iv oxide. These processes cannot exist in absence of the other because they provide each other withthe necessary raw materials: photosynthesis uses carbon (IV) oxide which is a by-product of cellular respiration and respiration uses glucose (sugars) and oxygen which are the product of photosynthesis.Global Warming

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