The carbon cycle and climate change

Question 1

Carbon moves among different
“compartments/pools”
What are the 4?

Answer 1

• Oceans
  – Largest pool
• Fossil fuels
• Terrestrial biomass and soils
• Atmosphere
  – Relatively small pool, but highly active

Question 2

Producers assimilate C via

Answer 2

photosynthesis

Question 3

Carbon sinks

Answer 3

absorb more carbon than they release

Question 4

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is…

Answer 4

Increasing

Question 5

phenological mismatches

Answer 5

timing of resource changing in response to climate, but the timing of demand is not (or vice versa)
- can cause population decline