The Carbon Cycle

Dear MBER Users,

As you await the publication of both this Carbon Cycle unit and the Ecosystems unit, we ask that you connect instead to the Matter Cycles and Energy Flow units, found on the MBER-Bio website, Year-At-A-Glance page. (Note: You must be logged into the MBER-Bio website for these hyperlinks to work.) These units still cover the needed content around the flow of matter and energy at the ecosystem level, building on the exploration of what happens with matter and energy in individual organisms in the red units (Chemical Reactions through Photosynthesis).

Thanks. We'll let you know when the green units for MBER Living Earth become available.

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Phenomenon

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The carbon in Earth's atmosphere has been increasing dramatically since about 1850.

Question

How does carbon move naturally on Earth?

How has that changed since the industrial revolution?

And how can we reverse the trend of net movement of carbon into the atmosphere?