Carbon Cycle
Greenhouse Effect
Ocean Acidification
Albedo & Feedback
Energy Distribution
100

Exists in many forms, such as in carbon dioxide, glucose, proteins, starch, coal, fossil fuels, etc 

what is the carbon?

100

Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere

what are greenhouse gases?

100

dissolves in water (from the atmosphere) to form acid

what is carbon dioxide?

100

The colour that absorbs the most heat

What is black? 

100

The uneven heating of the Earth

How is wind formed?

200

Oxygen reacts with glucose (sugar) to produce carbon dioxide, water and energy.

What is cellular respiration? 

200

Reaches the Earth's surface and heats the land and oceans. 

what is solar radiation? 

200

What shelled marine organisms are composed of

What is calcium carbonate?

200

The colour that reflects the most heat

What is white?

200

A current of air that forms where air from 2 different cells rises or falls

What is a jet stream? 

300

The formation of coal, oil & natural gas. When burned, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. 

What are fossil fuels? 

300

The greenhouse gas with an atmospheric lifespan of about 12 years. 

What is methane? 

300

decreases with an increased carbon dioxide  concentration 

what is pH?

300

Feedback with the same input and output 

What is positive feedback?

300

allows warm air to move north or cold air to move south 

What is an unstable jet stream? 

400

Can be completed within a few years, moving substances (carbon) from the atmosphere to the biosphere, then back to the atmosphere.

What is the fast carbon cycle?

400

Increases the amount of GHGs in the atmosphere

What are the burning of fossil fuels?

400

Serves as a food source for coral reefs, but are expelled from their tissues when stressed.

What are symbiotic algae? 

400

Feedback with an opposite input and output.

What is negative feedback? 

400

currents circulate water through the world's oceans, carrying heat from the tropics toward the poles and sending colder water back in deep ocean currents

What is the thermohaline circulation? 

500

Takes millions of years to complete, moving substances (carbon) through the Earth's crust between rocks, soil, the ocean and the atmosphere. 

What is the slow carbon cycle?

500

The carbon cycle being altered by increased carbon emissions, resulting in an enhanced greenhouse effect. 

What is the fast carbon cycle?

500

Ions that bond with excess hydrogen ions

What are carbonate ions? 

500

The Arctic is losing this and absorbing more heat.

What is ice cover? 

500

Causes cold, salty water to sink and warm, less salty water to rise.

What is density?