Carbon
What number is carbon on the periodic table?
The carbon cycle refers to the flow of carbon across the entire ___.
What is the planet?
Where did the Industrial Revolution start?
Where is England?
This term refers to a pattern that repeats itself over and over.
What is cyclic?
The greenhouse effect is a term to describe how ____ gets trapped in a planet's atmosphere.
What is heat / infrared energy?
How many carbon protons are there in CO2?
What is 12?
A process almost all plants use to create food for themselves.
What is photosynthesis?
What fossil fuel was instrumental to the Industrial Revolution?
What is coal?
This term refers to an average. For example, when the total emissions are divided by the number of people in a country.
Infrared energy is radiated back out from the earth, but that energy initially comes from here.
What is the sun?
This black sedimentary rock is usually around 65-95% carbon.
What is coal?
Before industrial activity, many processes still resulted in carbon being released into the atmosphere. Such as this, a large-scale natural disaster involving trees.
What is a forest fire?
What invention is widely seen as kicking off the Industrial Revolution?
What is the steam engine?
The combustion of fossil fuels produces lots of carbon emissions. This is also released during combustion, and is the main reason we burn fossil fuels.
What is energy?
Sunlight and infrared have a different this, which refers to the distance between two peaks.
What is wavelength?
"_____ life" is a phrase used to describe life as we know it.
What is "carbon-based"?
The evolution of these organisms meant that organic matter started to break down rather than slowly turn into fossil fuels.
What are bacteria?
What form of transportation was an outcome of the Industrial Revolution and transformed movement on land?
What is the railroad?
This terms refers to a pattern that does not repeat itself over and over.
What is acyclic?
This greenhouse gas, is 80 times more potent than CO2 at trapping infrared energy.
What is methane?
How many bonds is one carbon atom able to form?
What is 4?
This is the term that refers to things that pull lots of carbon out of the atmosphere and store them away. Such as forests, kelp, prairies, etc.
What are carbon sinks?
PPM, which stands for this, is a term that describes a ratio. For example, how much CO2 there is within the atmosphere.
What is parts per million?
Both infrared and visible light are part of this spectrum of energy.
The electromagnetic spectrum.