Global Warming and Carbon Cycle

How is the carbon cycle similar to the water cycle?

• Both involve liquid substances falling to the Earth from the atmosphere

• Neither process works at low temperature

• Both involve the transfer of substances between animals, plants, and the Earth

• Both involve the transfer of substances between the earth and outer space

How can global warming cause sea levels to rise? Choose the best answer.

• by causing it to rain more often

• by melting glaciers and ice caps

• by increasing the number of undersea volcanic eruptions

• by creating bigger and more powerful hurricanes

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Which is a natural source of greenhouse gases?

• aerosols

• deforestation

• volcanic eruptions

• burning fossil fuels

How do carbon emissions lead to global warming?

• By trapping the sun's heat in the atmosphere.

• By causing very hot volcanic eruptions.

• Rocks become richer in carbon as time goes by.

• By increasing the amount of carbon in the earth's crust

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Select all statements that are true.

• Burning fossil fuels extracted from the ground increases CO2, in the atmosphere and cools the planet.

• Burning fossil fuels extracted from the ground increases CO2 and warms the planet, by thickening the greenhouse effect.

• Examples of fossil fuels are: coal,

  natural gas,

  petroleum,

• The ocean absorbs CO2, and makes the ocean more acidic, which benefits the oceans' ecosystems.

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Which of the following add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

• volcanoes

• combustion of fossil fuels

• animal and plant respiration

• all of these

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What caused most of the carbon to be released in the atmosphere over the past several decades?

• burning more fossil fuels

• plants carrying out photosynthesis

• rocks releasing carbon into the soil

• animals releasing carbon dioxide during cellular respiration

Carbon can be found in...

• The atmosphere

• Soil

• Fossil fuels

• All of the above

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What does NOT produce carbon dioxide?

• Photosynthesis

• Burning Fossil Fuels

• Cellular respiration

• Plants decaying

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A natural process for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to the chart is (a)  

• photosynthesis

• volcanism

• deforestation

• fossil fuel combustion

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