What are the 4 steps of the carbon cycle?
Do you mean the citric acid cycle in plants or the carbon cycle like as in the route carbon takes in an ecosystem? Thanks although this is a very vague question in the ecosystem carbon takes a very complex cycle. 1. Respiration occurs (glucose is broken down and the energy produced from gycolosis and the rest of respiration produces a net of 34-36 ATP molecules used for various processes within the cell as a source of energy) 2. The carbon is exhaled or released from the cell/organism into the atmosphere or environment. If it is released into the air it will go to step 3a if into the ground (it gets buried or something) look at step 3b. 3a. The carbon in the air is absorbed by a photosynthetic organism like a plant or algae. 6 carbon dioxide molecules are then put together to form a glucose molecule which serves as food for the plant. See 4a for next step. 3b. The carbon released into the ground is then compacted and tends to turn into a natural gas or oil (fossil fuels) depending on t
