biogeochemical cycle
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The elements and compounds that The elements and compounds that
sustain us are cycled endlessly sustain us are cycled endlessly
through living things and through through living things and through
the environment.the environment.
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when when human activityhuman activity alters flow rates or alters flow rates or
storage times in these natural cycles, storage times in these natural cycles,
overwhelmingoverwhelming the environment’s ability the environment’s ability
to process them, these materials can to process them, these materials can
become become pollutantspollutants. .
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on the global scale on the global scale Biogeochemical Biogeochemical
cyclingcycling is the transport and transformation is the transport and transformation
of substances in the environment, through of substances in the environment, through lifelife, ,
airair, , seasea, , landland, and , and iceice..
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these these global cyclesglobal cycles include the include the
circulationcirculation of certain elements, or of certain elements, or
nutrients, upon which life and the nutrients, upon which life and the
earth’s climate depend.earth’s climate depend.
Hydrologic Hydrologic cyclecycle
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WaterWater•Very important
astronomers
How come we never run out of water?
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After four and a half million years you’d think the water would be all used
up! It’s not, though, because of one
special process: the hydrologic cycle, more commonly called “the
Water Cycle.”
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The Hydrological CycleThe Hydrological Cycle
(also known as the water cycle) is the
journey, water takes as it circulates from air, the land , subsurface waters, and organism to the sky, and back again.
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• The multiple cycle that makes up the Earth’s water cycle involve:– Four main physical actions :
• Evaporation• Precipitation• Infiltration• Runoff• Subsurface flow
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•Evaporation
– Transfer of water from bodies of surface water into the
atmosphere
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•Precipitation
– Atmospheric moisture that has previously condensed to form
clouds.
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• InFiltration
– transition from the surface water to groundwater.
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•Run-Off
– variety of ways by which land surface water moves down slope
to the oceans..
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•Subsurface Flow
– movement of water within the earth, or within aquifers.
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Carbon CycleCarbon Cycle
• Serves as dual Purpose for Organism:– Structural component of organic
molecules– Chemical bonds in carbon
compound provided metabolic energy.ECOWLEECOWLE
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Carbon CycleCarbon Cycle•Begins with photosynthetic organism taking up CO2 because carbon is changed from gaseous CO2 to less mobile organic molecules.
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Carbon CycleCarbon Cycle
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• The movement of carbon, in its many forms, between the biosphere, atmosphere, oceans and geosphere.
• Plants obtain carbon dioxide from the air, through photosynthesis
incorporate carbon into their tissues.
• Producers and consumers – transform part of the carbon in their food back into Co2 via respiration.
• Decomposers- release the carbon tied up in dead plants and animals
into the atmosphere
• Another major exchange of carbon dioxide occurs between Oceans and
atmosphere
• The dissolve co2 in the oceans is used by marine biota in
photosynthesis
• 2 other important processes – Fossil fuel burning– Changing land use
• Fossil Fuel Burning, coal, oil, natural gas, and Gasoline are
consumed by industry, power plants and automobiles.
• Changing land use is a broad term which encompasses a host of essentially human activities,
including agriculture, deforestation, and reforestation.
• The global carbon cycle is out of balance, making rapid global climate change.
• Co2 forms when the carbon in biomass oxidizes as it burns or decays
• Many biological processes in motion by people release carbon
dioxide
1. Burning fossil fuels2. Slash-and burn agriculture3. Clearing land for
permanent pasture, cropland, human settlements.
4. Accidental and intentional forest burning
5. Unsustainable logging and fuel wood collection
• Clearing vegetation cover from a forested hectare release much of the carbon lodged in the soil.
• The annual movement of carbon, the carbon exchanges bet. Reservoirs, occur because of various chemical, physical, geological and biological processes.
• The Ocean contains the largest pool of carbon near the surface of the
earth
Global Carbon Global Carbon BudgetBudget
• Is the Balance of the exchanges of carbon between the carbon reservoirs or between
a specific loop of the cycle
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