Description
Go to the following website:
http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/interactives...
complete the attached worksheet
Read the introduction and then open the carbon simulator in another window (so that you can go back and forth between the simulator and the lab instructions).
Please note: In the simulator, soil and ocean levels show an increase or decrease in carbon, but the overall numbers do not change. Use the increases or decreases in your data table
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Attached.
OUTLINE
1. INTRODUCTION
2. BODY
3. CONCLUSION
4. REFERENCE
Environmental Science
Name
Institutional Affiliation
Instructor
Date
Unit VI
DATA TABLES: CARBON CYCLE
LESSON 1
(5 points)
Lesson 1:
Gaseous
Step 1
Carbon
To Year
2010
2060
2110
Atmosphere
(GT)
390
569
1244
Ocean Water
Fossil Fuels
Ocean
Surface
+0
+107
+333
Oil and
Coal
Gas
500
3500
66
3170
0
700
Deep
Ocean
+0
+250
+1097
(15 points) * Run every other decade (every 20 years)
Lesson 1: Total
Gaseous
Step 2
Carbon
Ocean Water
Carbon
Emissions
To Year
Ocean
Deep
Smokestack Atmosphere
Surface Ocean
2010
2030
2050
2070
2090
2110
390
450
542
735
1097
1244
+0
+52
+94
+169
+289
+333
+0
+58
+180
+389
+763
+1097
Biosphere
Carbon
Oil
and
Gas
500
368
153
0
0
0
Terrestrial
Plants
700
758
899
Soil
+200
+238
+341
Fossil Fuels
Gaseous
Biosphere Gaseous
Carbon
Coal
Soil
Terrestrial
Plants
3500
3400
3236
2678
1406
700
+200
+208
+228
+259
+309
+341
700
719
747
791
864
899
Responses to questions (5 points each)
1. If only half of the flora (plants) in the world existed in 2110 (perhaps due to deforestation),
what do you predict the atmospheric carbon level would be?
Due to deforestation, by the year 2110, the carbon level within the atmospheric realm would
possibly be 1244 units. The outcome can be fathomed to facilitated reduction of the terrestrial
population to aid absorbing such gaseous substances.
2. What is the relationship between increased carbon in the ocean and increased carbon in
the soil? How else might carbon be transferred to soil?
The probable rapport that may exist between these two variables is that the increment realizable
increment in the gaseous carbon levels that would possibly reciprocate to a parallel increment of
carbon levels in both ocean and soil fraternities whereby the ...
