Human impacts to changes in the carbon cycle

Cards (18)

  • Extracting and burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
  • What does the extracting and burning of fossil fuels release?
    carbon dioxide
  • Deforestation reduces the size of carbon store
  • What store does deforestation reduce?
    carbon store
  • If the cleared forest is burned there is a rapid flow of carbon from the biosphere to the atmosphere
  • When a cleared forest is burned what is there a rapid flow of?
    carbon
  • When a cleared forest is burned what happens?
    there is a rapid flow of carbon from the biosphere to the atmosphere
  • Animals release carbon dioxide and methane when they respire and digest food
  • What do animals release when they respire and digest food?
    carbon dioxide and methane
  • What do animals do that make them release carbon dioxide and methane?
    respire and digest food
  • Ploughing can release carbon dioxide stored in soil due to the breaking up of the surface
  • What does ploughing release stored in the soil?
    carbon dioxide
  • What causes carbon dioxide to be released from ploughing?
    breaking up of the surface
  • As the world's population is rising so has food production. as a result carbon emissions from farming practices have increased
  • Changes to the land use such urbanisation has increased the removal of vegetation reducing carbon storage in the biosphere
  • What has urbanisation increased the removal of?
    vegetation
  • What does removal of vegetation reduce in the carbon cycle?
    carbon storage
  • Where is carbon storage reduced in?
    the biosphere