Carbon cycle
- Created by: ojcookie
- Created on: 30-03-15 11:26
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- Carbon dioxide in air
- plants
- During photosynthesis plants absorb carbon dioxide and convert it into carbon compounds
- Fossil Fuels
- dead organism that are not broken down by decomposers eventually make fossil fuels. oil , coal
- Animals
- Decomposers
- Respiration in plants, animals and decomposers release carbon into the air as carbon dioxide gas.
- Decomposers
- we burn fossil fuels(combustion) they release carbon in them back into the air as carbon dioxide.
- dead plants and animals are eaten by decomposers, such as bacteria and fungi.
- carbon compounds in plants are passed to animals when they eat the plants, and from animal to animal along the food chain.
- plants
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