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You are Carbon in Soil

I am as I was - but in smaller and smaller pieces. Bugs, birds, bees, badgers - all turn eventually into soil. I pass time being dirty... and just loafing in the hot, hot sun.  

You are carbon in a mixture of water, nitrogen, and oxygen.

Clay+Sand+Silt

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Soil

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Choose RUN OFF. In periods of excessive rains or rapid snowmelt, soil floats off into streams and rivers that eventually feed into the oceans.

Finish the trip - from dust to dust and soil to stone, slosh toward the sea and sink into SEDIMENT.

The process by which water flows from higher elevations to the ocean.

Q = (P-I)2/(P-I+S)

Runoff = (Rainfall - Water Stored)2/(Rainfall - Water Stored + Water Absorbed)

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Surface_runoff

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Choose RESPIRATION. Microorganisms don't have lungs, but they still breathe. Soil holds lots of carbon in organic matter left behind by dead plants and animals. This organic matter is eaten by bacteria, funghi, algae, worms, and other tiny creatures. The carbon returns to the atmosphere as these microorganisms use its stored energy to live and grow.

That place stinks. Aren’t you tired of getting stepped on? Why don't you ditch the low-life ground and rise back up to the clean blue skies and lofty clouds. Drift into the ATMOSPHERE!

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