Carbon stores
What Carbon stores means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels, which lock carbon away for millions of years.
Living biomass that holds carbon, which is reduced when trees are removed.
Topics that use Carbon stores
- Deforestation (AQA GCSE)
- How carbon dioxide decreased (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Atmospheric evolution
- Biodiversity loss
- Biomass and carbon storage
- Carbon dioxide absorption
- Causes of carbon dioxide decrease
- Causes of oxygen and nitrogen increase
- Changes in atmospheric composition over geological time
- Coal
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