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From the Ted Talk by Kristen Bell + Giant Ant: Where does all the carbon we release go?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Where does all the carbon we release go? Carbon works in a natural clcye, present in all lvniig things: in the soil, in the onaces, in the atmosphere and in rocks deep underground. When plants and other living things die, much of their stored carbon makes its way back to the atmosphere until new plants grow and reabsorb the carbon.
But over millions of years, some of the carbon stored in ancient trees and sea life becomes rock and some becomes fossil fuels: coal, oil and narautl gas. Natural events like volcanic eruptions release some of the carbon tearppd in rock. And huamn activities, like burning fiossl fuels, also release some of that peostriihrc carbon.
Open Cloze
Where does all the carbon we release go? Carbon works in a natural _____, present in all ______ things: in the soil, in the ______, in the atmosphere and in rocks deep underground. When plants and other living things die, much of their stored carbon makes its way back to the atmosphere until new plants grow and reabsorb the carbon.
But over millions of years, some of the carbon stored in ancient trees and sea life becomes rock and some becomes fossil fuels: coal, oil and _______ gas. Natural events like volcanic eruptions release some of the carbon _______ in rock. And _____ activities, like burning ______ fuels, also release some of that ___________ carbon.
Solution
- cycle
- natural
- living
- fossil
- trapped
- oceans
- human
- prehistoric
Original Text
Where does all the carbon we release go? Carbon works in a natural cycle, present in all living things: in the soil, in the oceans, in the atmosphere and in rocks deep underground. When plants and other living things die, much of their stored carbon makes its way back to the atmosphere until new plants grow and reabsorb the carbon.
But over millions of years, some of the carbon stored in ancient trees and sea life becomes rock and some becomes fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. Natural events like volcanic eruptions release some of the carbon trapped in rock. And human activities, like burning fossil fuels, also release some of that prehistoric carbon.
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