KQ1 ELSS

Which is the largest store of carbon on Earth?

• Atmosphere ☁️

• Sedimentary rock 🪨

• Oceans 🌊

• Trees and plants 🌱

Answer explanation

Shale, limestone and chalk are all examples of sedimentary rock.

What stores are part of the SLOW carbon cycle?

• Deep oceans and rock

• Volcanic outgassing and weathering

• Flora and fauna

• Atmosphere

Answer explanation

Deep oceans, rocks and fossil fuels are all part of the long term carbon cycle. Carbon takes a long time to move to these stores and spend a long time when there. For example, coal in the U.K. is 300 million years old.

Which of these is the odd one out?

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Decomposition

• Weathering

Answer explanation

Weathering is a flow associated with the long term cycle. The rest are all in the short term/ quick cycle.

The Earth's position in relation to the sun is perfect for sustaining life and encouraging water. What is this known as?

• Goldilocks Zone

• Little Bears Bay

• Jack an Jill's Hill

• Pied Pipers Planet

Residence time for carbon is rocks is approximately how long?

• 100 billion years

• 150 million years

• 250 million years

• 50 billion years

Which is the odd one out?

• Environmental Lapse Rate

• Dry adiabatic lapse rate

• Saturate Lapse Rate

• Standard Lapse Rate

As warm air rise, it expands. This is called...

• Convection

• Adiabatic expansion

• Cumuliform clouds

• Stratus cloud formation

Answer explanation

Convection is just the vertical movement

Adiabatic expansion occurs when warm air rises, there's less pressure so it expands

The other 2 are cloud types

Globally, transpiration is responsible for 10% of all atmospheric water, true or false?

• True

• False

When the speed of rainfall is faster than the speed of infiltration, what kind of run off occurs?

• River flooding

• Soil run-off

• Saturated Overland Flow

• Infiltration Excess Overland Flow

Cold ocean water...

• Sequesters less carbon

• Limits phytoplankton growth

• Sees downwelling

• Is less dense