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Where do you release the carbon dioxide that was stored millions of years ago?
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Whenever you burn fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity, this releases carbon dioxide which has been hidden underground for 300 million years.
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What global impacts do bushfires have?
Bushfires release a lot of carbon dioxide that was stored in the trees and vegetation. Carbon dioxide mixes well with the air and the winds move it round the globe.
Oceans are a reservoir for carbon stored as?
Dissolved Carbon dioxide
What does carbon and fossil fuels give off?
Yes. fossil fuels differ from other fuels in that, when we burn them we are burning carbon that has been sequestered from the atmosphere for millions of years. This adds 'new' carbon dioxide that increases the total atmospheric level of greenhouse gases.
Can Plants release carbon dioxide through the stomata?
They take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. We breathe in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. That is, during the daytime, when plants are showered with light energy. At night, or when in a shadow, plants burn oxygen, combining it with stored carbon and hydrogen, and give off carbon dioxide, just like animals! That is why the sugar plants make can be eaten by us, but also for them.
How do fuels contribute to the production of greenhouse gases?
Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) contain carbon that has been stored underground for millions of years. When we burn these fuels for industry, transport, or to generate electricity, then carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is a powerful greenhouse gas, really the only one we have much control over.
What effect does fuel have on the amount of carbon dioxide in the air?
Most of our fuel is fossil fuel, that is, coal, oil and natural gas. When these are used for fuel (by burning) they release carbon which has been stored in them for millions of years. This is adding to the amount of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere.
When trees die do they release stored up carbon dioxide?
Well, trees don't really store carbon dioxide; they use the carbon dioxide directly to produce sugars during the Calvin cycle. When decomposers eat up those sugars, they release the carbon in the sugars in the form of carbon dioxide.
What is carbon dioxide naturally absorbed and stored in?
Carbon dioxide is naturally absorbed (through photosynthesis) and stored in trees and vegetation. It is also absorbed and stored in the oceans.
What global impacts do bushfires have?
Bushfires release a lot of carbon dioxide that was stored in the trees and vegetation. Carbon dioxide mixes well with the air and the winds move it round the globe.
Oceans are a reservoir for carbon stored as?
Dissolved Carbon dioxide
What type of energy produces oil?
The energy stored in mineral oil is in the form of carbon that produces energy when it forms atomic bonds with oxygen to form carbon dioxide in the burning process. That energy was originally stored when plants used to Sun's energy to separate carbon and oxygen from atmospheric carbon dioxide millions of years ago, by photosynthesis. Plants used the carbon to form tissues made from long chains of carbon atoms. In that way, burning oil, coal and natural gas releases the Sun's energy, stored millions of years ago. 1 kg of fossil fuel burns with approximately 2.5 kg of oxygen to produce 3.5 kg of carbon dioxide.
Is carbon stored in the biosphere in the oceans as dissolved carbon dioxide?
Yes, it is.
What does carbon and fossil fuels give off?
Yes. fossil fuels differ from other fuels in that, when we burn them we are burning carbon that has been sequestered from the atmosphere for millions of years. This adds 'new' carbon dioxide that increases the total atmospheric level of greenhouse gases.
Carbon is stored in the atmosphere in the form of what molecule?
You think probable to carbon dioxide.
In what type of compound is carbon stored in the ocean?
carboate (co32-) and carbon dioxide (co2)
What do plants remove from the air during photosynthesis?
Plants remove carbon dioxide during photosynthesis!
Where is Mars CO2 stored?
The atmosphere of Mars contain 95,32 % carbon dioxide. In the polar zones carbon dioxide is as dry ice.
