Q1. List the 6 major reservoirs for carbon, on Earth.
Q2. Increase in carbon gases in the atmosphere results in what?
Q3. The source of the majority of energy consumed by human civilization is what?
Q4. In the slow carbon cycle, how long does it take carbon to move between rocks, soil, ocean, and atmosphere?
Q5. The movement of carbon from the atmosphere to rocks (the lithosphere) begins with what?
Q6. Atmospheric carbon combines with water to form what?
Q7. In oceans, photosynthesis is carried out by what organisms? How big are these organisms?
Q8. How is the remaining percentage of carbon-containing rock formed?
Q9. Oil, coal, and natural gas result from what situation?
Q10. How does the slow carbon cycle return carbon from rocks to the atmosphere?
Q11. What happens at the surface of the ocean, where air meets water?
Q12. The fast carbon cycle is the movement of carbon through what?
Q13. The foundation of the fast carbon cycle is what?
Q14. The main components of the fast carbon cycle are what 2 things?
Q15. List the 4 things that move carbon from a plant and return it to the atmosphere.
Q16. The ebb and flow of the fast carbon cycle is visible in what?
What is definition?
Fixing - the conversion of inorganic forms of elements into a biological form; incorporating inorganic elements into living things