Sunday, November 16, 2008

Vocab, summary, and concept check for 8.4

Vocab
Carbon cycle: It's the process that inorganic carbon moves to organic.
Greenhouse effect: atmospheric gases trap heat close to Earth's surface and prevent it from escaping into space

Summary
Tiny chloraplast and mithocondria can effect in earth scale, and one is carbon cycle. It's the cycle that carbon moves from inorganic to organic compound. For example, sunlight's inorganic carbon dioxide goes to plant, and consumers consume producers like plant. Both consumer and producers returns the carbon dioxide.

In cabon cycle, carbon dioxide takes big parts of it. Most of organisms gives out cabon dioxide a little , except plants. When it gets to the total effect of earth atmosphere, it gives huge effect.
In our atmosphere, carbon dioxide takes0.03 percent of it. This carbon dioxide traps heat and refelct it to the earth, so that earth's temperature increases about 10 celcius.

Concept check
1. Example of move of inorganic to organic carbon is the when sunlight changes into the plant's carbon dioxide
Example of organic to inorganic carbon is when consumer have eaten the producer and breathed out carbon

2. Carbon dioxide takes big parts in our atmosphere, because it controlls the amount of heat coming by it's thickness

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