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How would the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere change if there were no plants or animals?
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∙ 12y ago
Plants and all kinds of vegetation, including grass, trees and rain forests absorb carbon dioxide and store it. About half the weight of a tree is carbon. Trees can store carbon for hundreds of years. Animals, including man, breathe out carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Carbon is also released from soil, oceans and from rotting vegetation. This is all part of the natural carbon cycle.
One animal, man, adds a lot of extra carbon dioxide every day by burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).
If there were no trees or plants to remove carbon dioxide, and no animals to breathe out CO2, and no man to burn fossil fuels, the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would probably rise very slowly.
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