Question

how does the carbon cycle flow through the atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and oceans?

Answer 1

Carbon is stored on our planet in the following major sinks (1) as organic  molecules in living and dead organisms found in the biosphere; (2) as the gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; (3) as organic matter in soils; (4) in the  lithosphere as fossil fuels and sedimentary rock deposits such as limestone,  dolomite and chalk; and (5) in the oceans as dissolved atmospheric carbon  dioxide and as calcium carbonate shells in marine organisms.