carbon cycle: ocean

What will be an ideal response?


there's a lot of C02 in the ocean because it dissolves easily.
In the surface waters tiny free-floating plants (plankton) convert the dissolved carbon into simple sugars using sunlight to drive photosynthesis

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a. tolerance b. specificity c. memory d. resistance

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