IB Biology Carbon Cycle

In this flux process, producers use light energy from the sun to convert CO2 and water to create glucose.

• Respiration

• Lithification

• Photosynthesis

• Combustion

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

In this flux process, animals release ATP energy by breaking down glucose in the presence of oxygen and release carbon to the atmosphere.

• Respiration

• Lithification

• Photosynthesis

• Combustion

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

This carbon pool includes all of the planet's water.

• Lithosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

• Biosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

In this flux process, carbon moves from the atmosphere to the biosphere.

• Respiration

• Fossilization

• Photosynthesis

• Combustion

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

In this flux process, carbon moves from fossil fuels and biosphere into the atmosphere by burning.

• Fossilization

• Lithification

• Respiration

• Combustion

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

The breakdown of organic compounds in dead organisms is called -

• Decomposition

• Photosynthesis

• Combustion

• Pedosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

When marine organisms use carbon from the sea to make calcium carbonate shells, carbon moves -

• From the atmosphere to the biosphere

• From the hydrosphere to the biosphere

• From the atmosphere to the geosphere

• From the hydrosphere to the pedosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Atmospheric inorganic carbon is absorbed by the hydrosphere in --

• Fossilization

• Respiration

• Diffusion

• Combustion

When the calcium carbonate shells from marine organisms become limestone rock, carbon moves --

• from the biosphere to the geosphere

• from the hydrosphere to the geosphere

• from the biosphere to the atmosphere

• from the hydrosphere to the atmosphere

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

In this process, sediments compact under pressure, expel fluids, and gradually become solid rock, moving carbon from the pedosphere to the geosphere and from the biosphere to the geosphere.

• Photosynthesis

• Lithification

• Combustion

• Respiration

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6