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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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Unit VI DATA TABLES: CARBON CYCLE LESSON 1 (5 points) Lesson 1: Step 1 To Year Gaseous Carbon Atmosphere (GT) Ocean Water Ocean Surface Deep Ocean Biosphere Gaseous Carbon Fossil Fuels Oil and Gas Coal Terrestrial Plants Soil 2010 2060 2110 (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 Fossil Fuels Oil and Gas Coal Biosphere Gaseous Carbon Soil Terrestrial Plants 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? 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? 3. Step 2: What is the general trend between fossil fuel consumption (oil, gas, and coal combined) and atmospheric carbon? DATA TABLES: CARBON CYCLE LESSON 2 (5 points) Lesson 2: Step 1 To Year Gaseous Carbon Atmosphere (GT) Ocean Water Ocean Surface Deep Ocean Biosphere Gaseous Carbon Soil Terrestrial Plants 2010 2060 2110 (5 points) Lesson 2: Step 2 To Year 2110 2110 2110 Gaseous Carbon Net Deforestation Rate 0 0 0 Fossil Fuel % Increase Atmosphere Deep Ocean 0 0.5 1.0 Responses to questions (5 points each) 1. Set the fossil fuel consumption to “None.” Without any fossil fuel consumption, which parts of the cycle have improved their carbon levels in comparison to previous data? 2. Which sections of the cycle have improved from the previous levels you have recorded but still are increasing their carbon levels? 3. What effect does a high carbon level have on the deep ocean? Why might it be important to keep an eye on the deep ocean carbon levels? What could that one number tell you about the cycle as a whole? 4. Step 2: Try reducing the level of fossil fuel percentage increase and decrease deforestation to 0 GT per year. Predict what will happen to the atmospheric carbon levels and record it in your Data Table. Run the simulation to test your hypothesis. Were you correct? Were you surprised by the result? What about your result surprised you? DATA TABLES: CARBON CYCLE LESSON 3 (5 points) Lesson 3: Step 1 To Year 2010 2070 2090 2110 Atmospheric Carbon (GT) Net Def. Rate 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 (5 points) Lesson 3: Step 2 To Year 2110 2110 Biosphere Gaseous Carbon Tundra Melt Rate Net Def. Rate 1.6 1.6 1 Soil Gaseous Carbon 1 –— –— 6 X 12 Atmosphere Ocean Water Ocean Surface Deep Ocean Terrestrial Plants Fossil Fuels Oil and Gas Coal Biosphere Gaseous Carbon Soil Terrestrial Plants X Responses to questions (5 points each) 1. By 2110, how has the terrestrial flora (plant) carbon changed over the 100-year span? 2. What is the increase in carbon level in the soil over the 100-year span? 3. Compare this chart to the first one you made. By 2110, how are soil carbon levels different? Is this a big change? Compare this to the change in atmospheric carbon levels. 4. Assume that, in this hypothetical scenario, the tundra melting is inevitable and there is a 2% increase in fossil fuel consumption. Which of the two rates of melting would have a greater impact on coastal seaweed populations in 2110?
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OUTLINE

1. INTRODUCTION
2. BODY
3. CONCLUSION
4. REFERENCE


Environmental Science
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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 ...

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