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What are two non human activities by which carbon can enter the atmosphere as CO2 during the carbon cycle?
Dead trees rotting in the forest.Carbon dioxide escaping from volcanoes.
What Natural factors increase Greenhouse Gases?
Rotting trees and vegetation emit carbon dioxide and methane, both greenhouse gases.
Is smoke carbon dioxide?
Yes, the earth's carbon cycle moves carbon, and carbon dioxide in and out of the atmosphere. Carbon is released from rotting vegetation, rotting trees, melting tundra and lake beds, aerobic (with oxygen) decomposition of landfills, and from the breath of living creatures. It also moves in and out of the surface of the oceans. Trees and vegetation usually absorb carbon, but some carbon is emitted at night.
Are trees being affected by global warming?
Severe climate changes can affect trees. Floods can rip out trees and cause landslides. Droughts can kill trees. The Amazon Rainforest had a serious drought in 2005 and many trees died. Then in 2010 it suffered an even more serious drought. The dead and rotting trees release all their carbon into the atmosphere, and, of course, don't absorb carbon ever again.
How are forests able to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it for years?
All trees and different types of vegetation can. The trees and plants don't store all of the carbon dioxide for years because some plants die, and some trees drop leaves in the fall. What happens is in the summer when the trees get new leaves and grow more wood in the form of branches and a larger trunk, then they store a lot of carbon dioxide. However, in the fall, when the leaves fall and they decompose, a portion of the carbon dioxide is released back into the atmosphere. The majority of the carbon dioxide is stored, or sequestered, in the wood of the trees and the remaining parts of the plants (such as stems, roots). That is until they are consumed by rotting, or decomposing, or by being burned. Then the carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere once more. Since trees live a very long time, a lot of carbon dioxide is stored for a very long time.
What are two ways that deforestation adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
Rotting trees add carbon dioxide (and sometimes methane) to the atmosphere.Burning trees releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
What are two non human activities by which carbon can enter the atmosphere as CO2 during the carbon cycle?
Dead trees rotting in the forest.Carbon dioxide escaping from volcanoes.
Do rotting trees give off methane?
Yes they do give off methane and this is even more harmful than carbon dioxide.
What Natural factors increase Greenhouse Gases?
Rotting trees and vegetation emit carbon dioxide and methane, both greenhouse gases.
In what two main ways does deforestation alter atmospheric carbon?
Rotting timber adds either methane or carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.The missing trees no longer remove carbon from the air through photosynthesis.
Is smoke carbon dioxide?
Yes, the earth's carbon cycle moves carbon, and carbon dioxide in and out of the atmosphere. Carbon is released from rotting vegetation, rotting trees, melting tundra and lake beds, aerobic (with oxygen) decomposition of landfills, and from the breath of living creatures. It also moves in and out of the surface of the oceans. Trees and vegetation usually absorb carbon, but some carbon is emitted at night.
Are trees being affected by global warming?
Severe climate changes can affect trees. Floods can rip out trees and cause landslides. Droughts can kill trees. The Amazon Rainforest had a serious drought in 2005 and many trees died. Then in 2010 it suffered an even more serious drought. The dead and rotting trees release all their carbon into the atmosphere, and, of course, don't absorb carbon ever again.
How are forests able to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it for years?
All trees and different types of vegetation can. The trees and plants don't store all of the carbon dioxide for years because some plants die, and some trees drop leaves in the fall. What happens is in the summer when the trees get new leaves and grow more wood in the form of branches and a larger trunk, then they store a lot of carbon dioxide. However, in the fall, when the leaves fall and they decompose, a portion of the carbon dioxide is released back into the atmosphere. The majority of the carbon dioxide is stored, or sequestered, in the wood of the trees and the remaining parts of the plants (such as stems, roots). That is until they are consumed by rotting, or decomposing, or by being burned. Then the carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere once more. Since trees live a very long time, a lot of carbon dioxide is stored for a very long time.
How does cutting down forests affect the carbon cycle?
It affects the carbon cycle because when photosynthesis happens plant take in Carbon Dioxide and release oxygen. When the trees in the forest are cut down photosynthesis is reduced. Meaning, carbon dioxide will remain in the air that we breathe.
Do flying squirrels live in trees?
Yes, they do. They also live in rotting logs.
How is deforestation adding to the greenhouse effect?
Trees remove carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their trunks and branches. When deforestation happens and the trees are burnt or rot, that carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, and because no more trees are planted, there is no longer anything to remove the CO2. This is how deforestation adds to the greenhouse effect.
How does Global Warming Affect Rainforests?
Severe climate changes can affect trees in the rainforest.Floods can rip out trees and cause landslides.Droughts can kill trees. The Amazon Rainforest had a serious drought in 2005 and many trees died. Then in 2010 it suffered an even more serious drought. The dead and rotting trees release all their carbon into the atmosphere, and, of course, don't absorb carbon ever again.Rainforest animals may struggle to live if they cannot adapt to a different climate. If animals become extinct this will mean other species will overpopulate.
