Environmental Science Review 2

cellular respiration

volcanic eruptions

plant transpiration

fossil fuel burning

Plants that contain stored carbon are destroyed.

Less carbon precipitates to the ground as acid rain.

Soil releases carbon from decayed plant matter into the atmosphere.

There are fewer plants to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Plants will require less water to be absorbed.

Plants will decrease their rate of transpiration.

Plants will require more sugar to create energy.

Plants will increase their rate of photosynthesis.

They eat plants and other organisms that contain carbon which prevents it from ever being stored.

They eat plants and other organisms which contain carbon and deposit carbon into the soil when

they die.

They remove carbon from the atmosphere during respiration and replace it with oxygen that is used

in photosynthesis.

They remove carbon from the soil during respiration and exchange it with oxygen that evaporates

into the atmosphere.

photosynthesis, respiration, consumption, decomposition, erosion, and burning

respiration, transpiration, weathering, consumption, burning, and sedimentation

respiration, transpiration, decomposition, weathering, sedimentation, and infiltration

photosynthesis, respiration, sedimentation, infiltration, erosion, and decomposition

Individual

Population

Community

Ecosystem

the constant process of photosynthesis

sunlight that is transferred from the Sun to Earth

the convection process that occurs in Earth's mantle

dead organisms that are recycled back into the environment