| A | B |
|---|
| Carbon Sinks | a place where a lot of carbon is |
| carbon | a element with four bounds |
| types of fossile fuels | oil, natural gas, coal |
| greenhouse effect | rising Co2 levels caused by humans |
| resperation | animals breathing oxygen to make Co2 |
| photosynthesis | Co2 + Energy = sugar andoxygen |
| main regulator for Co2 | The ocean |
| closed cycle | the amount of it never changes |
| Ocean PH | ocean acidification |
| volcanoes | natural Co2 source |
| types of spheres | geosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere |
| ozone layer | atmosphere layer that blocks UV rays |
| crust | uppermost plates |
| mantel convection | movement of magma under the earth |
| continential plate | plate with a content on it |
| geosphere | any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydrosphere. |
| hydrosphere | all the waters on the earth's surface, such as lakes and seas, and sometimes including water over the earth's surface, such as clouds. |
| atmosphere | the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet. |
| biosphere | The biosphere is a global ecosystem composed of living organisms (biota) and the abiotic (nonliving) factors from which they derive energy and nutrients. Earth's environmental spheres |
| frost wedging | the mechanical disintegration, splitting or break-up of rock by the pressure of water freezing in cracks, crevices, pores, joints or bedding planes. |
