Carbon Sink
What Carbon Sink means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
Trees act as a vital store of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide when they are felled and burned.
A natural environment (like a forest or the ocean) that absorbs and stores more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it releases.
A natural environment that absorbs and stores more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it releases.
Topics that use Carbon Sink
- Tropical rainforests (AQA GCSE)
- Global climate is now changing as a result of human activity (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- The biosphere is a vital system (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Adaptation
- Biodiversity
- Biosphere
- Climate and weather
- Climate change
- Climate regulation
- Commercial farming
- Data interpretation
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