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The role of ocean pumps in the movement of carbon
Online Lesson | 02 Oct 2026 | Start: 19:00 | 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
This lesson will help students to understand:
- How the biological carbon pump links the fast and slow carbon cycles via burial and compaction.
- How organic carbon becomes inorganic carbon.
- How carbon moves between the oceans and the atmosphere.
- How atmospheric and ocean temperatures are linked, and how ocean currents move carbon.
Suggested timing
1 hour
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Course Module: Water and carbon cycles (Autumn 1) | Lesson The role of ocean pumps in the movement of carbon :
Online Lesson | 02 Oct 2026 | Start: 19:00 | 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
This lesson will help students to understand:
- How the biological carbon pump links the fast and slow carbon cycles via burial and compaction.
- How organic carbon becomes inorganic carbon.
- How carbon moves between the oceans and the atmosphere.
- How atmospheric and ocean temperatures are linked, and how ocean currents move carbon.
Suggested timing
1 hour
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