Hey, what's up I'm a talking bush. You see that bush over there with the blue circles? It's Photosynthesising carbon from the atmosphere
Combustion is super neat. If we burn the plants around us we can get fire! But carbon is released in this process back into the atmosphere
We are sucky teenagers that don't care for the environment! Yay!
The carbon is then released back into the atmosphere after being released from plants in one way or another
I am a cool water plant that also uses photosynthesis. I take the carbon from the atmosphere for energy use.
I, the fish, consume the plants and the carbon is transferred to me.
I'm going to eat this nerd. The food web also allows for carbon to go through its cycle.
When I die, my body decomposes and releases carbon back into the atmosphere. Another way for animals to release carbon is through respiration, but I'm dead so...