Reservoirs for nutrient
Processes that move nutrient
Human Impact
100
Marine food webs that hold carbon consist of these three groups of organisms.
What are Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers?
100
Basic process plants use to make their own food using carbon and sunlight
Photosynthesis
100
Main cause of human carbon footprint
What is Burning of Fossil Fuels?
200
Carbon is held in both dolomite and this type of sedimentary rock.
What is Limestone?
200
Process by which cells work and give off carbon as a waste product which is then released back into the atmosphere
Respiration
200
Movement of humans through vehicles
What is Transportation?
300
Living organisms that sequester carbon
What are Producers?
300
Process by which carbon is released into the ocean from air flowing over it.
What is Diffusion?
300
Mass removal of trees
What is Deforestion?
400
Largest reservoir of carbon on Earth
What is Ocean?
400
Process by which dead organisms are broken down and carbon is released into the soil.
What is Decomposition?
400
Global warming adds to the dryness of the planet increasing the likelihood of this
What is Forest Fire?
500
Reservoir of carbon that affects the ozone layer
What is Atmosphere?
500
Over long periods of time carbon in the soil from decomposition is subject to great heat and pressure and turned into fossil fuels, such as coal and oil.
What is Compaction?
500
Largest user of fossil fuels in the United States
What is United States Military?