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The leaves, with their broad surfaees, are the main parts of the plant where photosynthesis occurs (Fig. 1.1). Avery important featine of the leaf structure is the presence of large numbers of tiny pores (stomata) on the surface of the leaf (Fig. 1.2). There are usually thousands of stomata per square centimetre of leaf surface. Each pore (stoma) is oval-shaped and siuToimded by two guard cells. The carbon dioxide used in photosynthesis diffuses into the leaf through the stomata. Most of the water vapom leaving the plant, as well as the oxygen from photosynthesis, diffuses out through the stomata. 

An extensive source of natural pollutants is the plants and trees of the earth. Even though these green plants play a large part in the conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygen through photosynthesis, they are still the major source of hydrocarbons on the planet. The familiar blue haze over forested areas is nearly all from the atmospheric reactions of the volatile organics... 

Photosynthesis is the reverse of reaction (30.1) the formation of carbohydrates and oxygen from water and carbon dioxide with solar energy. Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplasts contained in the cells of green plants. The chloroplasts hold two types of photosynthetic systems, which are called PSl and PS 11. These systems... 

Fourthly living things do not just respond to the climate—they affect it as well. Plants consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen through photosynthesis. Earthbound plants take carbon dioxide directly from the air drifting photosynthetic micro-organisms called phytoplankton use carbon dioxide dissolved in water. 

Three processes that take place in living organisms - respiration in animals and plants, photosynthesis only in plants, and the precipitation of solids by some aquatic animals - have altered the primeval composition of the outer solid, liquid, and gaseous layers of the earth. Respiration consumes oxygen from the atmosphere and creates carbon dioxide. Photosynthesis, which does the opposite (consumes carbon dioxide and releases oxygen), has... 

Depth profiles of (a) salinity (%o), (b) dissolved oxygen (ml /L), and (c) percent saturation of dissolved oxygen in the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean (9°30 W 11°20 S). Samples were collected in March 1994. Dotted lines represent the curves generated by the one-dimensional advection-diffusion model (see text for details). The values of Dz, Vz, and J are the ones that best fit the data. Data are from Java Ocean Atlas (http /odf.ucsd.edu/joa). Values of percent saturation of oxygen less than 100 reflect the effects of aerobic respiration. Values greater than 100 indicate a net input, such as from photosynthesis. (See companion website for color version.)... 

The balance between relative rates of aerobic respiration and water movement were considered in Section 4.3.4. We saw that a subsurfece concentration minimum, the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ), is a common characteristic of vertical profiles of dissolved oxygen and is produced by in situ respiration. Waters with O2 concentrations less than 2.0 ppm are termed hypoxic The term anoxic is applied to conditions when O2 is absent. (Some oceanographers use the term suboxic to refer to conditions where O2 concentrations fall below 0.2 ppm but are still detectable.) As illustrated by Figure 4.21b, this water column is hypoxic in the OMZ. The dissolved oxygen concentrations are presented as % saturations in Figure 4.21c. With the exception of the mixed layer, the water column is undersaturated with respect to dissolved oxygen with the most intense undersaturations present in mid-depths. Surface supersaturations are the result of O2 input from photosynthesis and bubble injection. 

The Swedish National Energy Agency has set a 2006 target to reform hydrogen and oxygen from water with sun energy through artificial photosynthesis. 

Perhaps most interesting are endothermic reactions that result in products of less entropy (Case IV). What is notable about these reactions is that they will not occur on their own without the continued input of energy. Also, the products of these reactions can be complex molecules. The classic example is photosynthesis, which is the biochemical reaction by which plants use solar energy to create carbohydrates and oxygen from carbon dioxide and water, as represented by the following equation ... 

I he formation of food begins with photosynthesis, the biochemical process lused by plants to create carbohydrates and oxygen from solar energy, water, and atmospheric carbon dioxide ... 

Apart from photosynthesis, photolysis can be a source of oxygen in the atmosphere (i.e., the decomposition of water vapor under the influence of UV radiation in the upper layers of the atmosphere). However, the intensity of this source under present conditions is negligible. Nevertheless, let us denote this flux by // = aH WA, where WA is water vapor content in the atmosphere and aH is an empirical coefficient. If we assume that in the upper layers of the atmosphere a constant share of WA can reside, then at H° = 0.0039102 km-2 yr and WA= 0.025m, we have aH = 1.56 10 7 per year. 

A cartoon of the carbon cycle is given in Figure 15.6 [8]. A key reaction from photosynthesis uses the energy of the sun to convert C02 and water into oxygen and carbohydrate... 

Balanced chemical equations provide a significant amount of information. Consider the equation for photosynthesis, the natural process by which green plants form glucose, C6H1206, and oxygen from the reaction of carbon dioxide with water. 

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