You are Carbon in Marine Animals
We’re here maintaining vitality in the body of a fish, exploring the watery wonderland hoping we don’t end up a dish.
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.
Make a break for it! Those nasty predators and fishing boats only get worse. Dart toward surface waters, where air meets the OCEAN.
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.
Face it, your fins can only fight gravity so long. You will join us someday. Surrender yourself to SEDIMENT!
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