Balance for the Bogs

What plant is known as a "bog builder"?

• Sundew

• Pitcher Plants

• Sphagnum moss

• Ferns

Bogs absorb which gas from the atmosphere?

• nitrogen

• helium

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

What is turf?

• dried peat that is eaten

• dried peat that is burned for fuel

• dried peat that is used to build houses

• dried peat that is used in floral arrangements

A carbon sink...

• stores carbon.

• releases carbon.

• stores oxygen.

• releases nitrogen.

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Peat is a (a)   resource.

• nonrenewable
• renewable

Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has what effect on Earth?

• There is less air to breathe.

• There are more storms.

• Global temperatures fall.

• Global temperatures rise.

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Organize these options into the right categories: sources of carbon and sinks of carbon.

Groups:

(a) Sources of Carbon

,

(b) Sinks of Carbon

• animal breathing

• fires

• plants on land

• plants in the water

• burning fossil fuels

• volcanic eruptions

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What is the difference between a turf cutter's and conserationist's opinions on bogs?

• the turf-cutters want to use peat and the conservationists want to preserve it

• the conservationists want to use peat and the turf-cutters want to preserve it

• they have the same opinion on bogs

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________ are formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals.

• Fossil Fuels

• Renewable Resources

• Skeletons

• Wetlands

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Reorder the following in the order in which bogs form.

• As the dead plants piled up, they

  created a spongy mat called a fen.

• The fen thickens and makes the water acidic.

• Water filled in hollows that had been scraped out by glaciers and formed small lakes.

• Mosses, which can survive in acidic conditions, took over and replaced the other plants forming the bog.

• As plants died on the edges of the lake, they began

  to fill up the lake.

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