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Hungry, hungry honey badger gonna eat you and run!Honey Badgers don’t give a hoot. Come join us and give that tree the boot. Bond with the BADGER!

Continue up the FOOD CHAIN.
To live and grow, animals need to consume food full of carbon. They get it by eating parts of plants or other animals. Omnivores, like humans and honey badgers, eat both. Fruits and vegetables are consumed by animals. We live on the energy we get from digesting/burning the sugars that are rich in carbon. We also build our bodies from the carbon we consume.

Carbon moves through many life-forms in the food chain. Carbon stored ascan join hydrogen and oxygen and become fructose in an apple may get eaten by a worm, then picked out by a bird, then chased down by a hungry honey badger.

When a badger eats any form of plant material the carbon fixed through photosynthesis is then integrated into the badgers life cycle, used as energy or turned in badger body parts. All the carbon the badger is made from come through photosynthesis in plants via the food web.

METABOLISM: (CH4 or C6H12O6) + O2 => CO2 + H20 + energy (heat)
(combustion! of any fossil fuel, food, organic matter [http://www.elmhurst.edu/%7Echm/vchembook/306carbon.html])

CO2 + H20 + energy (heat)

Metabolism: Sugar + Oxygen => Carbon Dioxide + Water + Energy (heat)

Living organisms ingest other organisms as sources of energy in the food chain.

Learn much more with Wikipedia: Food_web, Eating, Organic_compound, Food_web, Metabolism

 

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Take a break and lLoosen up with us. Join our brown, dirty and nutrient rich lifestyle. Go out on a limb and leave that tree to Break it down in the SOIL.

Go through the process of DECOMPOSITION.
Dead trees are food for microbes. After plants die, they decay. Bacteria and fungi act as decomposers, sustaining themselves by breaking down complex carbon compounds into simpler forms.Plants eventually die and decay. Carbon stored in a leaf falls to the forest floor. As the structures and cells of the leaf get broken down bit by bit the carbon mixes into the soil—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.

C6H12O6 => 2C2H5OH + 2C02

Sugar => Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide

Complex organic molecules are reduced to simpler forms in the process of decomposition.

Learn much more with Wikipedia: Plant_decomposition, Organic_matter

 

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You are Carbon in a Plant

Being so fruitful feels so fine. We really are the stuff of life.The view is fine from the top of the vine. Carbon in a tree? Nowhere I’d rather be.

Plants are factories that transform elemental carbon dioxide into the raw materials to power and grow life on earth.various stuff of life. They are called, "primary producers," because they are at the beginning base of the food web. "Consumers" eat plants Carbon is stored as sugar which the plant and then burn the plant sugars for their own energy. Sugars also act as the building blocks for more and more complex organic molecules. or can beccome part of more complex molecules. What role doesn't carbon play in a plant? It's in cellulose, the bark, the DNA. Oxygen is released in the process as a waste producThe carbon essential for life enters the food chain through plants.

A body built of carbon can be burned to release heat energy, perhaps to roast a marshmallow. That would be one less tree capturing carbon and all the carbon it held would be released into the atmosphere or deposited in the soil.

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Land use changes can reduce the amount of carbon absorbed by reducing the number of plants. Fewer trees means less carbon dioxide is captured from the atmosphere. Also, the carbon stored in plants may be released back into the atmosphere by burning/combustion. Black carbon, or soot, is released into the atmosphere when trees burn.

 Carbon is stored as sugar [organic compounds] which the plants burn for energy or uses as [the] building blocks [of plant biomass] for more complex organic molecules. These compounds are the base of the food chain. They are the original source of fuel/food for all the other living creatures [heterotrophs, consumers].

[EQUATION?]50% of the carbon dioxide stored by plants returns to the atmosphere through respiration as the plant lives and grows.

Learn much more with Wikipedia: Plant

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