Carbon cycle
Carbon combined with oxygen produces
What is carbon dioxide?
Two ways that you contribute to a larger carbon footprint.
Answers will vary (What is ... eating meat, driving more, using more electricity, having more stuff etc.)
When humans burn fossil fuels carbon enters the atmosphere in this form.
What is carbon dioxide?
In 2012 England had a record-wet summer, while the U.S. had drought conditions
What is weather?
All of Earth’s water
What is hydrosphere?
An important element for life on earth
What is carbon?
The reason carbon emissions are worrisome even though the Earth was already warming naturally
What is an unnatural increase in carbon emissions is causing global warming to happen at an exponential/ crazy rate?
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?
Two ways you can reduce your carbon footprint
Answers will vary (vegetarianism, carpooling, using less electricity, reduce, reuse, recycle etc.)
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?
The relationship between CO2 and temperature
What is when CO2 increases temperature increases?
The gases surrounding the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
The amount of precipitation measured over the course of a year
What is climate
The process of burning fossil fuels for gas or energy.
What is combustion?
Places where carbon is stored
What is reservoir?
Some of the most important sources of data we have for understanding past climate.
What are ice cores?
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?
The transition humans made from a nomadic (traveling and following animals) to a farming (not moving) lifestyle
Neolithic/ Agricultural revolution