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Animals
Ocean
Atmosphere
Vegetation
Fossil fuels
100
If removed, there would be a jurassic change in the ecosystem.
What is a predator?
100
The effect of massive increases in carbon in our oceans.
What is carbonic acid
100
When CO2 levels increase, I increase as well.
What is temperature?
100
Fossil fuels are formed when _______ and _______ decompose/decay.
What is plants and animals?
100
A man made activity that releases CO2 into earths atmosphere.
What is burning of fossil fuels?
200
An animal that increases global warming by producing 70 to 120kg of methane each year.
What are cows?
200
Another name for ocean because it takes up more carbon from the atmosphere than it gives up.
What is a 'sink'?
200
The percentage of carbon dioxide in earths atmosphere.
What is .04%?
200
The main organism that uses photosynthesis (6CO2+6H2O-->C6 H12 O6+6O2) to create energy.
What are plants?
200
Organic carbon from waste and dead organisms _______ into oil, coal and natural gas.
What is decompose?
300
This would happen if herbivores were removed from our ecosystem from our ecosystem.
What is predators would die out/vegetation would flourish?
300
Our oceans response to the large amounts of carbon being released into the air from burning fossil fuels.
What is absorbing more carbon dioxide? -Our oceans have absorbed about half of all the extra carbon dioxide people have put into the air over the last 150 years.
300
A gas with a 23 times higher negative effect on earths climate than the effect of CO2.
What is methane?
300
A process of burning and clear cutting of tropical forests that release massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
What is deforestation?
300
The heating of the earth from natural and man made things.
What is global warming?
400
The process in which animals use to produce CO2.
What is respiration? (C6 H12 O6+ 6O2-->6CO2+ 6H2O)
400
A process between the atmosphere and oceans use _________.
What is diffusion?
400
A greenhouse gas that traps heat in our atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
400
Percentage of oxygen provided by green algae and cyanobacteria in marine environments
What is 70%?
400
Formed oil, coal and natural gas.
What is prehistoric plants and animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.
500
The result of too much carbon in our oceans creates carbonic acid which....
What is declines in the oceans food supply?
500
The amount of carbon (in gigatons) our oceans absorb each year.
What is approximately 92?
500
The amount of carbon (in pounds) that each American produces each year.
What is 4600 pounds?
500
An effective way of increasing oxygen and removing carbon from the atmosphere.
What is massive reforestation?
500
A way to reduce the burning of fossil fuels.
What is clean renewable energy?