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https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Photosynthesis-Poster-225x300.jpg 225w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Photosynthesis-Poster-675x900.jpg 675w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Photosynthesis-Poster-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Photosynthesis-Poster-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Photosynthesis-Poster.jpg 1728w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px"/></figure> <div class="wp-block-group" style="padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default"/> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"> <p>“The main idea of photosynthesis is that it takes in carbon dioxide from the air. Then, it uses that carbon with water and sunlight to convert it into a chemical form like glucose.”</p> </blockquote> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-default"/> <div style="height:15px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div><p>Plants are mostly glucose which is C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>12</sub>O<sub>6</sub>. The carbon, hydrogen and oxygen for glucose comes from:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list"> <li><strong>WATER</strong>: Water is H<sub>2</sub>O which provides oxygen and hydrogen.</li> <li><strong>CARBON DIOXIDE</strong>: Carbon dioxide is CO<sub>2</sub> which provides carbon and oxygen.</li> <li><strong>SUNLIGHT</strong>: Sunlight is the energy that powers photosynthesis.</li> </ul> <p>If you cut off sunlight, the plant no longer has the energy it needs for photosynthesis. Without water or CO<sub>2</sub>, you choke the plant from the essential building blocks in its structure.</p></div></div><div class="wp-block-group" style="padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Trees grow using carbon dioxide</h3> <div class="wp-block-image is-style-default"> <figure class="alignright"><img decoding="async" width="290" height="300" src="https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tree-Growth-290x300.png" alt="Tree Growth" class="wp-image-1778" srcset="https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tree-Growth-290x300.png 290w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Tree-Growth.png 407w" sizes="(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px"/></figure></div><p>Only when carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water are available, plants undergo photosynthesis. Photosynthesis produces sugars to create the trunk and other structures of the tree.</p> <p>Plants use <a href="https://earthhow.com/solar-radiation-electromagnetic/">solar radiation from the sun</a> to break apart the carbon dioxide from the air. Then, plants use this same carbon that goes into the plant material.</p> <p><a href="https://earthhow.com/soil-nutrients/">Nutrients that plants get from soils</a> mostly aren鈥檛 used as part of the main body and structure of a tree. Plants use these nutrients for the more complex structures within plants, such as functional proteins and enzymes. This means that most of the dry mass of trees is made from the contents of the air.</p> <p>In turn, this process releases oxygen into the air. Then, it removes carbon dioxide which is a <a href="https://earthhow.com/air-pollution-sources/">form of air pollution</a>. This cycle involving photosynthesis is the <a href="https://earthhow.com/carbon-cycle/">short-term carbon cycle</a>.</p></div></div><div class="wp-block-group" style="padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Gas burnt in your car ends up in plant material</h3> <div class="wp-block-image is-style-default"> <figure class="alignright"><img decoding="async" width="290" height="300" src="https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gas-Combustion-290x300.png" alt="Gas Combustion" class="wp-image-1814" srcset="https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gas-Combustion-290x300.png 290w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Gas-Combustion.png 407w" sizes="(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px"/></figure></div><p>When your car burns gasoline, fossil fuels are released into the air as carbon dioxide and water vapor.</p> <p>It may stay in the atmosphere for a while, but eventually, plants consume it during photosynthesis.</p> <p>So that means the same weight from the tank of gasoline gets converted into wood or plant material by photosynthesis.</p> <p>Given how many cars are being driven daily, plants have access to plenty of “material” for their growth. They just need the ideal conditions to grow.</p></div></div><div class="wp-block-group" style="padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Long and short-term carbon cycle</h3> <div class="wp-block-image is-style-default"> <figure class="alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" src="https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carbon-Cycle-300x225.png" alt="Carbon Cycle" class="wp-image-485" srcset="https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carbon-Cycle-300x225.png 300w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carbon-Cycle-675x507.png 675w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carbon-Cycle-425x319.png 425w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carbon-Cycle-550x413.png 550w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carbon-Cycle.png 678w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carbon-Cycle-326x245.png 326w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carbon-Cycle-80x60.png 80w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Carbon-Cycle-267x200.png 267w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"/></figure></div><p>In the <a href="https://earthhow.com/carbon-cycle/">short-term carbon cycle</a>, it just takes days, months or years for carbon to cycle through the environment. The main idea is that carbon is converted into sugars through photosynthesis, decomposition, respiration, and combustion</p> <p>But the <a href="https://earthhow.com/long-term-carbon-cycle/">long-term carbon cycle</a> takes millions of years to come full circle. When plants are buried and compacted over millions of years, they get re-purposed into hydrocarbons or fossil fuels like coal.</p> <p>Photosynthesis lays the foundation for both cycles. Without photosynthesis, it’s absent of the necessary building blocks to create fossil fuels in the long-term carbon cycle. Alternatively, if you remove photosynthesis from the short-term cycle, you cut off the fuel that all living things require.</p></div></div><div class="wp-block-group" style="padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Earth metabolism and net primary productivity</h3> <div class="wp-block-image is-style-default"> <figure class="alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="290" height="300" src="https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Earth-Metabolism-290x300.png" alt="Earth Metabolism" class="wp-image-1771" srcset="https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Earth-Metabolism-290x300.png 290w, https://earthhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Earth-Metabolism.png 407w" sizes="(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px"/></figure></div><p>The Earth is breathing. We gauge <a href="https://earthhow.com/net-primary-productivity/">Earth鈥檚 metabolism</a> based on the rate at which plants absorb carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Net primary productivity is how much carbon dioxide is taken in during photosynthesis minus how much is given off during respiration.</p> <p>For example, lush tropical rainforests are the most productive places on the planet. Because of its high rainfall and temperatures, South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia have high net productivity.</p> <p>But polar regions are the least productive because little photosynthesis takes place. 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29, 2024 at 9:48 am</time></a></div></footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>I would love to purchase this poster to use at our farm showing the process of photosynthesis. 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