Carbon cycle
Carbon combined with oxygen produces
What is carbon dioxide?
Ways humans disrupt the natural carbon cycle
Fossil fuels, Agriculture, overpopulation
When humans burn fossil fuels carbon enters the atmosphere in this form.
What is carbon dioxide?
Name two ways that carbon can be found on Earth
Solid Carbon, C02, Living things etc
All of Earth’s water
What is hydrosphere?
An important element for life on earth
What is carbon?
The study of climate before there records for temperature, precipitation, and other data collected with weather tools.
What is paleoclimatology?
Some carbon from decomposing organisms and decomposers ends up in the
What is soil?
A set of conditions in one place at one time.
What is weather?
The basis of the carbon cycle when plants capture energy from the sun and change it into food.
What is photosynthesis?
Plants get carbon dioxide from this.
What is air?
How long does it take living things to form into fossil fuels
millions of years
Built of sugars that they make through photosynthesis using CO2 and H2O.
What are plants?
The conditions over a longer period of time.
What is climate?
The rocky outer layer of the Earth.
What is the geosphere/lithosphere?
Carbon atoms moving from one thing to another
What is carbon cycle?
Found in ice cores that can be used to interpret past climates
What are air bubbles?
The gases surrounding the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
How do marine animals use carbon
Algae and plankton photosynthesis, Used to create shells, Large animals such as whales hold carbon for a long period of time.
Plants using soil nutrients, Animals breaking down rocks.
Places where carbon is stored
What is reservoir?
The relationship between CO2 and temperature
What is when CO2 increases temperature increases?
The parts of the land, sea, and atmosphere in which life exists
What is the biosphere?
This causes sea levels to rise
What are melting glaciers?
name two carbon reservoirs
Forest, Ocean, CCS, Soil