Question

Does carbon ever leave the EARTH? Explain.

Answer 1

No, the increase in the atmosphere happens when carbon is released as a gas - like when a dead thing decays, a fossil fuel is burnt or a volcano erupts. But that's only a tiny part of the whole story of the movement of carbon. Individual atoms of carbon constantly move from one form to another - in air, water, living things and rock. The movement is managed by different chemical and physical processes, from photosynthesis, respiration, combustion and plate tectonics, to plain old dissolving and off-gassing.

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Answer 2

All carbon eventually passes through the atmosphere. 99.9 per cent of carbon is stored in rock, mostly as limestone. After rock, the ocean is the next biggest storage site with 38,000 billion tonnes of dissolved CO2. Soil stores three times as much carbon as all the world's plants.

Step-by-step explanation:

All carbon eventually passes through the atmosphere, so your answer would probably be yes. Just not at the same time.