Fact Attack Carbon - EQ 1

Question 1

What is a petagram?

Answer 1

One gigatonne = 1 trillion kilograms

Or 1 billion tonnes

Question 2

How long does it take carbon to enter and leave rocks and sentiments in a geological cycle?

Answer 2

100,000 years

Question 3

How old are some of the fossil fuels we use today?

Answer 3

Up to 300,000,000

Question 4

How many tons of carbon is stored in the UK is fossil fuels?

Answer 4

143 billion tons

Question 5

How long does it take for carbon to move between rocks soil ocean and atmosphere?

Answer 5

100 to 200 million years

Question 6

How much CO2 was omitted each day by the Icelandic volcano eruption in 2010

Answer 6

150000 to 300000 tonnes

Question 7

What percentage did the Icelandic eruption contribute to the global emissions of greenhouse gases in 2010

Answer 7

0.3%

Question 8

How many active surface volcanoes are active on the planet

Answer 8

70

Question 9

How much energy does carbon provide worldwide

Answer 9

30%

Question 10

How much CO2 is released by degassing in 1992

Answer 10

100 million tons

Question 11

How much carbon do volcanoes omit annually

Answer 11

300 million tonnes

Question 12

How much carbon to humans emit annually

Answer 12

35Gt

Question 13

In the oceans today what percentage of carbon containing rock is from shell building organisms and plankton

Answer 13

80%

Question 14

How much CO2 does phytoplankton sequester each year to the deep ocean

Answer 14

2bn tonnes

Question 15

How many carbon compounds have been discovered

Answer 15

10 million

Question 16

How much of carbon makes up earths atmosphere

Answer 16

0.03%

Question 17

How much is the total active pool of carbon is stored in the ocean

Answer 17

95%

Question 18

How much large is the ocean as a carbon stored in the atmosphere

Answer 18

50x

Question 19

How much is the carbon oceans are stored in undersea algae plants and coral

Answer 19

93%

Question 20

What are the current UK emissions of carbon dioxide

Answer 20

530 million tons

Question 21

What percentage of carbon dioxide makes up Earths atmosphere?

Answer 21

0.04%

Question 22

What of CO2 concentrations risen to and from over the past decade

Answer 22

From 25% to 39%

Question 23

How much CO2 does each person generate a year

Answer 23

2.3 tons of CO2 a year

Question 24

How was the majority of carbon stored in the oceans

Answer 24

Dissolved in organic carbon

Question 25

How important is carbon in living organisms

Answer 25

Second most abundant substance in living organisms behind water

Question 26

How much a global temperatures expected to rise by the end of the century

Answer 26

4°

Question 27

How much is atmospheric CO2 increased by the last 300 years

Answer 27

40%

Question 28

Why has human activity affected the carbon cycle

Answer 28

Burning fossil fuels deforestation and carbon sequestration

Question 29

Arise of 1.5° will put what percent of the species at risk of extinction

Answer 29

20 and 30%

Question 30

By 2080 shifting temperatures may reduce bird habitats in North America which would affect how many species

Answer 30

314

Question 31

How much of global carbon is stored in soils

Answer 31

20-30%

Question 32

Since 1850 how much carbon have soils lost due to cultivation and disturbances?

Answer 32

40-90bn tonnes

Question 33

What percentage of global carbon emissions come from cement production

Answer 33

6%

Question 34

How much carbon do peatlands store

Answer 34

550 Gt

2x forest and biomass combined

Question 35

How long does carbon remain in the atmosphere for

Answer 35

2000 years