The Carbon Cycle

Question 1

How much of a tree is carbon?

Answer 1

50%

Question 2

What are fluxes?

Answer 2

processes that transfer carbon between the atmosphere and the land

Question 3

What are the 2 different types of carbon?

Answer 3

Inorganic

Organic

Question 4

Why are hydrocarbons significant?

Answer 4

Hydrocarbons make up a lot of fossil fuels

e.g oil

Question 5

What is the lithosphere?

Answer 5

Made up of the crust and upper mantle of Earth

Question 6

What type of stores are in the lithosphere?

Answer 6

Limestone

fossil fuels

Question 7

What is the hydrosphere?

Answer 7

The accumulation of all water on Earth

Question 8

Examples of Carbon in the hydrosphere

Answer 8

Oceans - dissolved CO2

Organisms - Plankton

Question 9

What is the biosphere?

Answer 9

Includes all living forms of carbon

Question 10

Examples of carbon in the biosphere

Answer 10

Living vegetation

Plant litter

Question 11

What is the atmospehere?

Answer 11

All the gasses that surround Earth

Question 12

What is NPP?

Answer 12

Net primary Product

carbon dioxide vegetation takes in during photosynthesis - carbon dioxide the plants release during respiration