The carbon cycle
Carbon is one of the most abundant elements in the
universe and here on earth it is always on the move,
just like water, jumping from a reservoir (can be
natural or artificial lakes or ponds created to store
water) to the next. !
It can be found almost anywhere, and that’s a good
thing because all living things require carbon for their
structure and to fuel their bodies.!
It’s a big component in a bunch of non-living things
as well: it’s in rocks, in the ocean, trapped in ice. Plus
it’s in the atmosphere, where it helps regulate the
temperature. !
Without carbon dioxide Earth would basically be a
frozen wasteland. If we were to take all of the water
out of our body, carbon would constitute about half of
what remained of us, of our body. !
It is important for many reasons, first of all it provides
us lots of the power that we use. It’s found in coal, in
fossil fuels, in all of our main sources of energy. We
can find it in many different types of source poles,
there’s a lot of carbon in the ocean for example,
which is one of our main carbon pools in the planet ,
we can find it in the atmosphere as different gases,
such as carbon dioxide, plus you can find lots of
carbon in the terrestrial area, in plants, in trees…!
