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    Lesson 4: The Biogeochemical Cycle: Chemical Oceanography

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    This document provides an overview of biogeochemical cycles and carbon cycling in the ocean. It discusses how (1) the biogeochemical cycle is the continuous flow of elements between organisms and Earth, with the ocean playing a role in cycles of carbon and nitrogen. (2) As part of the carbon cycle, carbon dissolves from the atmosphere into the surface ocean and is used for photosynthesis by phytoplankton. (3) Elements like carbon and nitrogen move among the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere through physical and biological processes, with organisms using elements as nutrients and releasing them back into the environment.

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    This document provides an overview of biogeochemical cycles and carbon cycling in the ocean. It discusses how (1) the biogeochemical cycle is the continuous flow of elements between organisms and Earth, with the ocean playing a role in cycles of carbon and nitrogen. (2) As part of the carbon cycle, carbon dissolves from the atmosphere into the surface ocean and is used for photosynthesis by phytoplankton. (3) Elements like carbon and nitrogen move among the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere through physical and biological processes, with organisms using elements as nutrients and releasing them back into the environment.

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    This document provides an overview of biogeochemical cycles and carbon cycling in the ocean. It discusses how (1) the biogeochemical cycle is the continuous flow of elements between organisms and Earth, with the ocean playing a role in cycles of carbon and nitrogen. (2) As part of the carbon cycle, carbon dissolves from the atmosphere into the surface ocean and is used for photosynthesis by phytoplankton. (3) Elements like carbon and nitrogen move among the atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere through physical and biological processes, with organisms using elements as nutrients and releasing them back into the environment.

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    Lesson 4:

    The Biogeochemical
    Cycle

    Chemical Oceanography
    Last class we learned about CO2 in the
    oceans

     What is the average pH in the ocean?


     How can increases in CO2 affect:
    – Ocean pH?
    – Calcium carbonate?
     What substance do marine organisms use to
    make exoskeletons?

    2
    Today we will learn more about organic
    ocean chemistry

    1. The biogeochemical cycle is the continuous flow


    of elements and compounds between organisms
    and the earth
    2. The ocean plays a role in the biogeochemical cycle
    for elements including carbon and nitrogen
    3. As part of the carbon cycle, carbon dissolves into
    the surface ocean from the atmosphere and is used
    for photosynthesis

    3
    The biogeochemical cycle

    Atmosphere The biogeochemical


    Biosphere cycle involves the
    movement of elements
    and compounds among
    the land (lithosphere),
    organisms, air
    Hydrosphere (atmosphere) and the
    oceans (hydrosphere).
    Lithosphere
    Human activities can
    affect these cycles

    4
    How do elements move through the
    biogeochemical cycle?

    Elements travel
    among air, land and sea
    through
    physical processes
    ts

    ts
    n

    n
    e

    e
    m

    m
    e
    El

    e
    El
    Organisms use
    elements as
    nutrients
    and put
    nutrients back
    into the
    5 environment
    What elements are important to marine
    life?

     Carbon (C)
     Nitrogen (N)
     Phosphorus (P)
     Silicon (Si)
     Iron (Fe)
    A trace element exists at
     Trace metals LESS THAN 100ppm

    6
    Carbon cycling in the ocean: The
    “biological pump”

     Today we will focus on carbon cycling.


     We’ll examine the processes that transfer carbon from
    the ocean surface to the deep ocean and throughout the
    food chain.

    7
    Phytoplankton
    use CO2 Some
    CO2 for CO2 is given back off
    photosynthesis through respiration

    Carbon moves up the


    CO
    food chain
    2 as primary
    consumers like
    Respiration
    zooplankton eat
    phytoplankton

    Carbon
    Decomposition
    moves
    further up to
    secondary and
    As phytoplankton
    tertiary consumers
    die and
    decompose,
    carbon settles to
    the 8
    deep ocean
    Student activity

    In today’s activity, we will read an example of


    modern scientists’ studies of biogeochemical
    cycles

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