Carbon Cycle questions with correct answers

Define carbon cycle - ANSWER-The complex processes that carbon undergoes as it is transferred from organic carbon to inorganic carbon and back again 4 major stores of carbon - ANSWER-• Hydrosphere • Cryosphere • Lithosphere • Atmosphere carbon sink - ANSWER-A store of carbon where the input is greater than the output carbon source - ANSWER-A store of carbon where the amount of carbon leaving the output is greater than the input transfers - ANSWER-The inputs and outputs that affect the magnitude of stores at any one given time carbon pools - ANSWER-storage houses for large amounts of carbon carbon fluxes - ANSWER-transfer of carbon from one pool to another lithosphere - ANSWER-The crust and upper mantle of the Earth How lithosphere stores carbon - ANSWER-• Stored it in organic and inorganic forms • Marine sediments and sedimentary rocks contain approx 100 mil GtC • Soil organic matter contains between 1,500 and 1600 GtC • Fossil fuel deposits approx. 4100 GtC • Peat - dead but undecayed organic matter found in boggy areas contains approx. 250 Gtc hydrosphere - ANSWER-Made up of all the water which is mainly in the oceans sedimentary rock formation - ANSWER-When organisms die, decay releases CO2 into deep water, forms layers of carbon sediments which turn into rocks, lock up carbon for millions of years biosphere - ANSWER-Total s