The spheres
Carbon cycle - general
Processes
Interactions
Climate Change
100
The ________sphere consists of the air around us
What is the atmosphere
100
The carbon cycles is concerned with the movement of _______ through the environment
What is carbon
100
Plants use __________ to produce their own food from CO2 and water
What is photosynthesis
100
Plants use ______________ in photosynthesis which is released by animals
What is carbon dioxide
100

Identify one effect of climate change and one solution to climate change.

What are flooding, extinction of animals, melting of glaciers, more natural disasters, more droughts, warmer weather, etc. Use renewable energy sources, change to nuclear energy, replanting trees, educational reforms on climate change,etc

200
The ____________sphere consist of the ocean and other large bodies of water
What is the hydrosphere
200

True or False: Carbon spends the longest amount of time in the geosphere part of the cycle.

True

200

Activity done by humans that lessens the amounts of tree covers and helps to increase earth's temperature.

What is deforestation

200
The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon into the __________ and the _____________
What is atmosphere and oceans
200

Identify two human activities that cause climate change.

What are burning fossil fuels, deforestation and agriculture.

300
The ____________sphere consists of living organisms on Earth
What is the biosphere
300
Carbon in the atmosphere mostly consists of _________
What is carbon dioxide
300
Living organisms produce CO2 as a waste product of _____________
What is cellular respiration
300

Process that describes the amount of sunlight reflected back into space. It decreases when glaciers melt, exposing more of earth's ocean water.

What is the albedo effect

300

How does Earth's obliquity (axial tilt) affect the climate?

What is greater axial tilt leads to more extreme seasons (colder winter and warmer summer) or lower axial tilt leads to milder seasons (warmer winter and cooler summer)?

400
The ____________sphere consists of rocks, soil, and other dense parts of the Earth
What is the geosphere
400

Carbon dioxide is known as this type of gas.

What is a greenhouse gas?

400

Process that uses methane, carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide to trap heat on Earth.

What is the Greenhouse effect?

400
__________ are created over thousands of years of being compressed underground
What are fossil fuels
400

Name three ways that climate change is affecting the oceans?

arctic sea ice is melting, coral reefs are dying, marine animals cannot build their shells, marine animals with shells are smaller and ocean water is becoming more acidic

500
Carbon cycles through these "spheres"
What are the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere
500
Carbon is stored underground in the form of ________ fuels
What is fossil
500

___________ is the process by which the pH of Earth's oceans decrease, becoming more acidic.

What is ocean acidification

500
When there is too much carbon in the atmosphere, the heat from the sun is trapped causing ________________
What is climate change or global warming
500

Obliquity (axial tilt), eccentricity and precession are collectively known as this cycle.

What is the Milankovitch Cycle?

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