Carbon Cycle
This general location is the largest sink, or reservoir, of carbon
What is the ocean?
The general name for the types of molecules, such as carbon dioxide and methane, that warm up our atmosphere
What are greenhouse gases?
The study of past climates.
What is Paleoclimatology?
These types of vehicles cause the largest amount of transportation carbon dioxide emission
What are passenger vehicles/cars?
Designing this type of structure to house chickens can increase food security by providing access to eggs within a community
What is a chicken coop?
What is photosynthesis?
This is the measure of the light reflectivity of the surface of earth
What is albedo?
They contain bubbles of air from historic climates, of which scientists study and analyze
What are ice cores?
The production of this type of meat is the largest producer of greenhouse gases
Beef
Protecting our garden from outside threats, such as pigs and mongoose, can be remedied with this kind of structure
What is a fence/pig fence?
The process by which living organisms exchange carbon dioxide within the atmosphere
What is respiration?
The burning of these increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What are fossil fuels?
They contain fossils that are organized by time period, with the oldest layers on the bottom and the youngest on the top
What are sediment layers
This country produces the largest amount of carbon dioxide emissions
What is China?
An alternative energy source which utilizes sunlight in order to provide electricity and has no carbon emissions
What are solar panels?
These types of organisms break down dead, organic matter into basic elements and chemicals in order for it to be recycled within the food web again
What are decomposers?
When carbon dioxide increases, so does this in resonse
What is temperature?
Contained within sediment layers, scientists can count these to determine what kinds of trees lived during specific time periods, using botanical knowledge to determine the historic climate
What are pollen?
We waste 31% of this type of food
What is fish/seafood?
The process of combining raising fish with growing plants in water in order to create a closed system in which they cycle nutrients for each other
What is aquaponics?
If dead, organic matter do not decompose, they get trapped deep within earth and become this.
What are fossil fuels?
These areas of earth have had the largest change in average temperature, due to their melting causing their albedo to decrease (get darker)
What are polar ice caps?
These historic records are removed via coring, revealing distinct yearly data
What are tree rings
This major era in history catapulted the rise in manufacturing, eventually leading to the increasing carbon dioxide and temperature levels we see today
What is the industrial revolution?
The process in which food waste is turned into nutrient rich soil for plants
What is composting?