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Try something more complex. You can make a world of difference. Every little bit helps. Become significant. Make something of yourselfDIY!So what if we are at the bottom of the food chain? LIFE IS SHORT! Let’s explore the ocean blue. Feel fully functional with PHYTOPLANKTON.
Go through the process of PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
Plants in water perform photosynthesis—meaning "putting light together"—just as plants do on land. But, marine plants use carbon dioxide that's dissolved in the water, where land plants take it from the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide is combined with water using the energy of sunlight. The oxygen released in the process remains dissolved in the water to be "breathed" in by aquatic animals.
6CO2 + 6H2O + photon => C6H12O6 + 6O2
Carbon Dioxide + Water + Light => Sugar + Oxygen
Energy from the sun is converted into chemical bond energy in sugar in the process of photosynthesis.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Photosynthesis
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Take a random walkabout in the sky. Every carbon atom should see the world from on high. ICome fly with us.sn't it getting crowded in there? Those cold dark depths below look so dull. Forget all those fish! Come soar up high with the clouds. Drift into the ATMOSPHERE!
Go through the process of DIFFUSION.
Through the ongoing air-sea gas exchange, carbon dioxide suspended in water can return to the atmosphere. The rate of this process increases in warmer water regions, like the tropics. Higher tempuratures mean more motion of molecules. Saturation point.
The amount of carbon dioxide water will hold depends on temperature and pressure. When you open a bottle of soda pop—a carbonated beverageAs oceans are becoming warmer, more carbon is being released into the atmosphere.—the pressure decreases dramatically and you see bubbles of carbon dioxide as it comes out of solution. Under pressure in a closed bottle the carbon dioxide in a
Rate of Change in Concentration = Difference in Concentration Between Two Regions
Things move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration in the process of diffusion.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Diffusion, Diffusion_equation
You are Carbon in the Ocean
Exploring the depths and riding tides in this vast blue body, where carbon is plentiful and life is complex. The ocean can seem bottomless, at times ... but, we remember we’re part of a larger cycle.
Oceans hold around fifty times more carbon dioxide than the atmosphere. Oceans are the largest active carbon sink on earth. The ocean is the second largest sink after rock. The oceans hold more than 90% of the earth's carbon that is not in long term storage in rock formations. Like the atmosphere, the ocean has carbon dioxide suspended in it, but in the ocean there are other ways for carbon dioxide to react, and many other forms of dissolved carbon. Like the soil, the ocean holds lots of carbon from decaying plant and animal bodies in various states.
As concentrations of carbon dioxide increase the oceans become less and less able to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As oceans are becoming warmer, more carbon is being released into the atmosphere. Absorbing more/acidification, but at a slower rate.
CO2 + H2O => H2CO3 => HCO3- + H+ => CO32- + 2H
Carbon Dioxide + Water => Carbonic Acid => Bicarbonate + Hydrogen Ion => Carbonate + Hydrogen Ions
Carbon exists as bicarbonate with carbonate ions acting as the intermediate form between carbon dioxide and bicarbonate.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Ocean
