Mark Waatney Natural Cycle

Thesis_01 ---Needs improvement The most important chemistry concept for Mark Watney to understand to help him survive is the natural cycle. I claim this because Mark is in an environment where he has limited resources. He would need to know how to conserve energy through his environment or reconstitute his resources. The natural cycle is how nature recycles and keeps energy/resources flowing. The nature cycle is basically making something for one use turn into something else and having it keep cycling. How the same water from the dinosaurs is the same water we drink because it is never ending the water cycle. In the book Mark recomposed many things such as feces, hydrazine, etc.

Claims_01_WaterCyle On page 79 Mark needs his hab to keep watering his plants while he is on his journey to Pathfinder. To keep the plants watered he turns the atmospheric regulator off which pulls water from the atmosphere (macroscopic). There will be an increase of water molecules in the atmosphere that water will condense on any surface that is the temperature of the dew point (submicroscopic). Any surface that is 60 degree fahrenheit or lower water will condense and drip into the soil. Since the Mark’s makeshift water creator creates water continuously pressure will be high meaning water will condense faster as pressure increases (I put this on the symbolic because if I knew exactly how much water was created and pressure I could graph it) (symbolic).
On page 13 he uses the crew and his waste as fertilizer at which the bacteria from the soil from earth can feed on (macroscopic). The bacteria will eat thing such as glucose to power ATP (molecules for energy). More complex carbohydrates such as starch would be broken down by CAZymes (Carbohydrate-active enzymes)