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From the Ted Talk by Kristen Bell + Giant Ant: Where does all the carbon we release go?

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Where does all the carbon we release go? Carbon works in a ntuaral 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 mliionls of years, some of the carbon stroed 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 cabron trapped in rock. And huamn avttiiecis, like burning foissl fuels, also release some of that psoterihric carbon.

Open Cloze


Where does all the carbon we release go? Carbon works in a _______ 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 ________ of years, some of the carbon ______ 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 ______ trapped in rock. And _____ __________, like burning ______ fuels, also release some of that ___________ carbon.

Solution


  1. human
  2. natural
  3. prehistoric
  4. stored
  5. activities
  6. millions
  7. carbon
  8. fossil

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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  1. activities
  2. ancient
  3. atmosphere
  4. burning
  5. carbon
  6. coal
  7. cycle
  8. deep
  9. die
  10. eruptions
  11. events
  12. fossil
  13. fuels
  14. gas
  15. grow
  16. human
  17. life
  18. living
  19. millions
  20. natural
  21. oceans
  22. oil
  23. plants
  24. prehistoric
  25. present
  26. reabsorb
  27. release
  28. rock
  29. rocks
  30. sea
  31. soil
  32. stored
  33. trapped
  34. trees
  35. underground
  36. volcanic
  37. works
  38. years