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You are Carbon in the Atmosphere

High above the clouds soaring with the greatest of ease, our motions are determined on a whim of the wind. Light floods in from space, bounces off earth’s surface only to be bounced off us again like a game of pong.

You are a chain of carbon. Carbon makes up about 0.039% of the atmosphere, mostly in the form of carbon dioxide. Its primary action in the atmosphere is trapping of infrared radiation heat.

78% N2, 21% O2, 1% Ar, 0.04% CO2

78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1% Argon, 0.04% Carbon Dioxide

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Choose PHOTOSYNTHESIS. Plants use sunlight to combine carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with water to form carbohydrates that store energy this energy and keep carbon in the tree. But did you know that 50% of the carbon stored by plants will return to the atmosphere through respiration as the plant lives and grows?

Start doing something besides warming the globe. You’re up there just trapping heat! Travel with the sun into the land of the living and become carbon in a TREE.

The process by which energy from the sun is converted into chemical bond energy in sugar.

6CO2 + 6H2O + photon = C6H12O6 + 6O2

Carbon Dioxide + Water + Light = Sugar + Oxygen

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Choose DIFFUSION. Most of the carbon on Earth resides in the oceans -- 50 times more than what exists in the atmosphere. Carbon is often dissolved into the water with the crashing of waves or in extreme ocean storms.

Down here its deep and mysterious with so much potential for an atom like you… get out of those clouds and float into the OCEAN.

The process by which things move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration.

Rate of Change in Concentration = Difference in Concentration Between Two Regions