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Where is carbon stored in the environment?

• Fossil fuels
• Wood of trees
• Calcium carbonate (shells and bones)
• All of the above

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According to this slide

• CO₂ is causing marine life to die by "poisoning' the water

• CO₂ is destroying sea shells

• CO₂ is formed from the combustion of Octane

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Where can you find carbon?

• Only in the Earth's atmosphere.

• Inside all water molecules.

• Inside the sun.

• Inside every living thing on Earth.

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Formed when large quantities of dead organisms such as Zoo-plankton and Algae are buried under sedimentary layers and subjected to intense heat and pressure turning them into a liquid fossil fuel.

• Coal

• Oil / Petroleum

• Natural Gas

• Geothermal

• Biofuel

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What is the probable cause of global warming?

• a reduction in the number of glaciers

• increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

• weakened prevailing winds

• faster ocean currents

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Which of the following puts an enormous amount of carbon in the atmosphere?

• photosynthesis

• burning fossil fuels

• cellular respiration

• decomposition

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What is the largest source of natural carbon sink?

• The ocean

• The forest

• cows

• hunans

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Which of these is a consequence of global warming to our oceans? (choose all that apply)

• Acidification: Ocean is becoming more acidic.

• Sea level is rising due to ice melting.

• Coral bleaching due to increase in temperatures.

• Animals are getting strangled by plastic 6 pack rings.

• We have less beach for nesting and less land for polar bears.

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Global warming is caused by a phenomenon known as the greenhouse effect.

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The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement set up with the goal of 

• reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
• shutting down industrial factories all over the world 
• reducing pollution 
• all of the above 

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