Reflection: Answer as many as you like (at least 1).
What is something new you learned?
What is something that suprised you?
What questions do you have?
What would you like to learn more about?
Where is carbon found? Select all that apply.
Plants remove carbon from the atmosphere using
Animals release carbon into the atmosphere through
What is a carbon sink/reservoir?
What is the largest sink/reservoir of carbon on the planet?
What is the role of greenhouse gases, like carbon, in the atmosphere?
What has caused an increase in atmospheric CO2 levels in the last 200 years?
As the planet warms, the ocean's ability to store carbon will become effective.
There is more carbon on Earth today than there has been in the past.
What is the carbon cycle?
Carbon is absorbed and stored in carbon sinks/reservoirs, such as rocks, living things, the atmosphere, and the ocean.
Fossil fuels release carbon into the atmosphere through the process of
What process begins the movement of carbon from the atmosphere to the lithosphere (geosphere) as carbonic acid (H2CO3)?
Which organisms use calcium carbonate (CaCO3) to build their outer coverings?
What type of rock forms at the bottom on the ocean containing large amounts of carbon?
Plants and phytoplankton absorb carbon in photosynthesis. What are the reactants (left side of equation) and products (right side of equation) of photosynthesis?
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How is carbon returned to the atmosphere? (Select all that apply)
What happens to atmospheric carbon dioxide levels during winter in the Northern Hemisphere?
How are humans impacting the fast carbon cycle?
How are humans impacting the slow carbon cycle?
Carbon is a greenhouse gas. How are greenhouse gases beneficial (good) for the Earth?
How does deforestation affect the carbon cycle?
What percentage of global carbon emissions is accounted for by tropical deforestation?
mitigate (verb): make less severe, serious, or painful.
What do they mean when the video states "Halting tropical deforestation and allowing regrowth could mitigate up to 50% of global carbon emissions through 2050"?