Deposits of Coal Are Important in the Carbon Cycle Because

question 7

Multiple Choice

Deposits of coal are important in the carbon cycle because they

• A) Keep humans from burning more trees by serving as fuel source.
• B) Serve as a reservoir of carbon that will eventually be released into the ecosystem.
• C) Lock up carbon so that it can never be returned to the atmosphere to make global warming increase.
• D) Make carbon readily available to plants through their roots growing down into the coal deposit.
• E) Serve as short term storage for carbons.

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