A Local Developer Starts a Project to Build a House

question 99

Multiple Choice

A local developer starts a project to build a house in a natural field.He bulldozes the topsoil to the edge and digs a hole for the basement.Due to financial problems,he abandons the project leaving a 1000-square-meter patch of bare land.What effect does this land conversion have on atmospheric carbon dioxide?

• A) 30 more grams of carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere per year.
• B) 30,000 more grams of carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere per year.
• C) 30 fewer grams of carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere per year.
• D) 30,000 fewer grams of carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere per year.
• E) 30,000 more grams of carbon dioxide will be released into the atmosphere per year.

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