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The movement of carbon: The slow carbon cycle
Online Lesson | 02 Oct 2026 | Start: 18:00 | DURATION: 1 HOUR Specification content
3.1.1.3 The carbon cycle
Factors driving change in the magnitude of these stores over time and space, including flows and transfers at plant, sere and continental scales. Photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, combustion, carbon sequestration in oceans and sediments, weathering.
Learning outcomes
- Students to be able to describe and explain the processes involved in these transfers, including: burial, compaction, carbon sequestration and weathering.
- Students to understand how these link to wider geomorphological processes such as fluvial transport (and therefore the water cycle).
- Students to understand how the slow carbon interacts with the fast carbon cycle.
Suggested timing
1 hour
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Course Module: Water and carbon cycles (Autumn 1) | Lesson The movement of carbon: The slow carbon cycle :
Online Lesson | 02 Oct 2026 | Start: 18:00 | DURATION: 1 HOUR
Specification content
3.1.1.3 The carbon cycle
Factors driving change in the magnitude of these stores over time and space, including flows and transfers at plant, sere and continental scales. Photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, combustion, carbon sequestration in oceans and sediments, weathering.
Learning outcomes
- Students to be able to describe and explain the processes involved in these transfers, including: burial, compaction, carbon sequestration and weathering.
- Students to understand how these link to wider geomorphological processes such as fluvial transport (and therefore the water cycle).
- Students to understand how the slow carbon interacts with the fast carbon cycle.
Suggested timing
1 hour
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