Name the various forms of carbon found on the Earth. How the carbon cycle may get disrupted?
On earth oceans are the largest reserves of carbon, after oceans forests are the second largest reserves.
● Carbon can be found in its combined form as gas, CO2.
● Elemental state of carbon is in form of compounds like diamond and graphite.
● All life supporting molecules like, proteins, fats, nucleic acids etc. are made of carbon.
● Process of photosynthesis i.e. formation of complex sugars from carbon di oxide and water in the presence of sunlight cannot be completed without carbon.
● Carbon is present in soil as minerals, it forms the exoskeleton of a number of organisms.
● Carbonates, coral reefs, animal shells everything inside oceans consists carbon.