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You are Carbon in Marine Animals

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming…slippery fish, slippery fish…you can’t stop singing ridiculous fish songs as you make your way to the beautiful Hawaiian islands.

Food chain working up to our key fish.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Aquatic_animal

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Choose RESPIRATION. Oxygenated water is pulled in through the gills and exchanged with carbon dioxide within the fish.

LOOK OUT! IT’S A SHARK! Start swimming faster and breathe deep little buddy, you're gonna need all the oxygen you can get.

The process by which living things burn sugar to release energy.

C6H12O6 + 6O2 = 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy

Sugar+ Oxygen = Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Cellular_respiration

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Choose DECOMPOSITION. Dead marine animals rich in carbon sink to the ocean floor, eventually pile up on each other adding more layers to the ocean floor. Pressure from the material and ocean water above compounds the carbon into new long term forms.

Though you had a long and colorful journey though the vast expanse of the ocean, one of those evil and soulless jellyfish stung you in the fin. Death is creeping in, but the ocean floor looks like a comfortable place to lay your fishy head.

The process by which the complex organic molecules are broken down to simpler forms.

C6H12O6 = 2C2H5OH + 2C02

Sugar = Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Decomposition