Tuesday Night Reading Concepts

Tuesday Reading Concepts and Terms

By Kelly Moran

The carbon cycle is the movement of carbon atoms within Earth's ecosystems, from carbon storage as plant and animal matter, through release as carbon dioxide due to cellular respiration, combustion, and decay, to reacquisition by plants, a carbon atom can go through all the different spheres. Global warming is a theory that states that with more people using automobiles and things that release carbon dioxide the earth will heat up and cause disasters to the earth. A limiting reactant limits the amount of hydrocarbon that can be completely burned. Cellular respiration is reverse photosynthesis. The energy released by cellular respiration is used by organisms to power internal energy-consuming processes, including forming other organic molecules. Such organic molecules found in plants and animals are called biomolecules. Energy efficiency refers to the use of smaller quantities of energy to achieve the same effect. These are all the terms I learned from C.6-C.12 and D.1-D.2!