You are Carbon in Plants on Land

Breath deep! The view is fine from the top of the vine. As carbon in a tree there is nowhere I’d rather be.

Photosynthesis, meaning "putting light together" converts carbon dioxide into organic matter using light from the sun.

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Plant

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Enter the FOOD CHAIN. Fruits and vegetables are consumed by animals which digest the sugars that are partially made up of carbon. Within the animal, carbon exists in many complex forms such as muscle, blood, bone, and brain matter. You can join hydrogen and oxygen to become fructose in apple, only to get eaten by a worm then picked out by a bird and chased down by a hungry hungry honey badger. Carbon goes through many forms in the food chain.

Honey Badgers don’t give a hoot. Come join us and give that tree the boot. Bond with the BADGER!

The process by which a living organism absorbs sources of energy.

CO₂ + H₂0 + energy (heat)

Metabolism: Sugar + Oxygen = Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Eating

Choose DECOMPOSITION. Plants eventually die and decay. Carbon was stored in a leaf that falls to the forest floor. As the structures and cells of the leaf get broken down bit by bit and mix into the soil, they take the carbon with them. Fertile soil that is 57% carbon! Some of the carbon is also released through respiration by the insects and microorganism that help decompose the plant.

Loosen up with us. It’s a brown, dirty and nutrient rich lifestyle. Go out on a limb and leave that tree to slosh around in the SOIL.

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

C₆H₁₂O₆ = 2C₂H₅OH + 2C0₂

Sugar = Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Decomposition#Plant_decomposition