Microplastics that make up the majority of garbage patches can't always be seen by the naked eye. Satellite imagery of oceans doesn't show a giant patch of garbage.
<span><u>How does fossilized carbon get back into the atmosphere?</u>
</span>Fossilized carbon is coal. One major way it gets back into the atmosphere is by humans burning it in coal power plants. Carbon gets back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide through the combustion of fossil fuels.
<span><span><u>How does a plant get nitrogen from the soil?</u>
</span></span>Plants take nitrogen from the soil<span> by absorption through their roots as amino acids, nitrate ions, nitrite ions, or ammonium ions.</span><span>
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For an atom to become a positively charged ion it must lose negatively charged electrons.
