AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Carbon may be stored for long periods of time in the atmosphere, bodies of liquid water-mostly oceans-ocean sediment, soil, rocks, fossil fuels, and Earth’s interior.

Detailed explanation-2: -The carbon and nitrogen cycles are the biogeochemical cycles which are directly associated with fossil fuels. This is because the burning of fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide which are important chemicals in the carbon and nitrogen cycles respectively.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ocean plays a critical role in carbon storage, as it holds about 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere. Two-way carbon exchange can occur quickly between the ocean’s surface waters and the atmosphere, but carbon may be stored for centuries at the deepest ocean depths.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Slow Carbon Cycle. Through a series of chemical reactions and tectonic activity, carbon takes between 100-200 million years to move between rocks, soil, ocean, and atmosphere in the slow carbon cycle.

Detailed explanation-5: -Carbon Cycle is a biogeochemical cycle where various carbon compounds are interchanged among the various layers of the earth, namely, the biosphere, geosphere, pedosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere.