Difference between Water and Carbon cycle
Difference between Water cycle and Carbon cycle are in tabular form below –
No. |
Water cycle |
Carbon cycle |
1. | When water travels through three phases such as gas, liquid and solid, and it travels from the earth to the atmosphere and atmosphere to earth again, this is known as Water cycle. | A cycle where carbon travels from atmosphere into organisms and again back into atmosphere, this is known as Carbon cycle. |
2. | The changes of state of water through various components is a Water cycle. | The cycling of carbon containing compounds between biotic and abiotic components of earth is a Carbon cycle. |
3. | In the water cycle, the process is of water. | In the carbon cycle, the process is of carbon compounds. |
4. | It will always remain as H2O | It is cycled in the biotic and abiotic compounds. |
5. | In the beginning of water cycle, it is liquid. | In the beginning of carbon cycle. , it is gas. |
6. | major processes are condensation, transpiration, evaporation, precipitation, surface runoff etc. | Major processes are respiration, combustion, photosynthesis and decomposition. |