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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is still building up in the atmosphere because we are still burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) which emits CO2, and we are still cutting down trees which then cannot remove CO2 from the atmosphere. The natural carbon cycle is unable to remove all the extra CO2 (it actually manages to remove almost 60% of it), so the carbon is building up in the atmosphere and causing global warming.
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How is carbon cycled from the atmosphere through producers and consumers?
Carbon is cycled from the atmosphere to producers (plants) through photosynthesis, where they take in carbon dioxide to produce glucose. Consumers then consume these plants, obtaining carbon by eating them. When consumers respire or decompose, carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
What effect would over-logging of trees have on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Over-logging of trees means that they can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This has actually happened and levels of carbon dioxide are building up in the atmosphere causing global warming.
Carbon is stored in the atmosphere in the form of what molecule?
Carbon is stored in the atmosphere primarily as carbon dioxide (CO2) molecule.
What is an example for when the atmosphere carbon to the hydrosphere?
An example of carbon moving from the atmosphere to the hydrosphere is when carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere dissolves into the oceans. This process, known as carbon sequestration, helps regulate the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and directly impacts the ocean's acidity levels.
What is the difference between a carbon source and a carbon sink in the context of the carbon cycle?
In the carbon cycle, a carbon source releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, while a carbon sink absorbs and stores carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What effect would over logging of trees have in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Over-logging of trees means that they can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This has actually happened and levels of carbon dioxide are building up in the atmosphere causing global warming.
What effect would over logging of trees have on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Over-logging of trees means that they can no longer remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This has actually happened and levels of carbon dioxide are building up in the atmosphere causing global warming.
What happened to Yushchenko in Ukraine?
He was poisoned with dioxin poison.
What gas is both harmful and beneficial to life on Earth oxygen or carbon dioxide or ozone?
All of them. Oxygen allows animals to live, carbon dioxide allows plants to live, and ozone protects all from UV radiation. However, plants are poisoned by oxygen and animals are poisoned by carbon dioxide; both are also poisoned by ozone.
How is carbon extracted from atmosphere?
Carbon is removed from the atmosphere in some ways. For example, plants and trees eliminate carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Carbon will be released into the atmosphere when an organism dies.
What the from of carbon in the atmosphere?
Most of the carbon in the atmosphere is in the form of carbon dioxide, (CO2) gas.
Process by which carbon circulatesaroundthe earth as plants remove carbon from the atmosphere and animals add carbon to the atmosphere?
Carbon Cycle.
What molecule is carbon found in the atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the molecule in which carbon is found in the Earth's atmosphere.
Does carbon dioxide sink or rise in the atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide rises in the atmosphere.
How is carbon cycled from the atmosphere through producers and consumers?
Carbon is cycled from the atmosphere to producers (plants) through photosynthesis, where they take in carbon dioxide to produce glucose. Consumers then consume these plants, obtaining carbon by eating them. When consumers respire or decompose, carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
What molecule carries most of the carbon in the atmosphere?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the molecule that carries most of the carbon in the atmosphere.
Process by which carbon circulates around the earth as plants remove carbon from the atmosphere and animal add carbon to the atmosphere?
The carbon cycle
