carbonways

• Law of Conservation: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, instead it can be transferred or converted
• energy in molecules = chemical energy
• Law of Entropy = in any energy conversion or transfer, some energy is lost to the system and is no longer usable
• Carbon has 4 bonds
• carbon is present in the form of CO2
• Carbon is released from all living organisms during cellular respiration and decomposition
• the stuff from a tree comes from chemicals outside of the environment
• permafrost is permanently frozen soil
• increase in carbon levels -> increase of acidified oceans -> reefs destroyed
• There is flunctuation up and down the keeling curve due to the seasons changing as well as plants losing their leaves
• ph - potential to make charged Hydrogen ions
• CO2 + H2O -> Carbonic Acid (H2CO3)
• Hydrogen ions floating around is bad because it will acidify the water
• increased ocean acidification can result in drops in immune system, drops in metabolic rate, and destruction of corals
• Organisms lose their shells because of the increased amount of CO2 because the amount of carbonate ions are reduced
• forams and coccolithophores are important because they make shells