Geological Component

Question 1

What is the geological component?

Answer 1

Where carbon interacts with the rock cycle in the processes of weathering, burial, sub-
duction and volcanic eruptions.

Question 2

How is CO2 removed from atmosphere?

Answer 2

By dissolving in water and forming carbonic acid.
The weak acid reaches surface in precipitation.
It reacts with minerals on Earth’s surface dissolving them into component ions through chemical weathering.

Question 3

What happens to the component ions?

Answer 3

They are carried into surface waters like streams and rivers then eventually to the ocean where they settle as minerals like calcite.