QUESTION 8 What distinguishes the slow and fast carbon cycles? OA The slow carbo

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QUESTION 8 What distinguishes the slow and fast carbon cycles? OA The slow carbon cycle moves carbon through nonliving things, and the fast carbon cycle moves carbon through living things. O B The slow carbon cycle takes place in the geosphere, and the fast carbon cycle takes place in the atmosphere and hydrosphere. The slow carbon cycle occurs through natural processes, and the fast carbon cycle occurs through human-induced processes. ODThe slow carbon cycle takes thousands of years, and the fast carbon cycle takes tens of years. EThe slow carbon cycle determines prehistoric climate, and the fast carbon cycle determines current climate.

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Question8: Answer: D. the slow carbon cycle takes thousands of years and the fast carbon cycle takes tens of years. Explanation: The slow carbon cycle releases carbon through volcanoes, goes through rocks and oceans for millions of years. Fast carbon cycle interacts with earth's living beings and other processes and it happens in few years. Question 6: Answer: A. has distinct seasons. Explanation: Due to the tilt of earth's axis, the sun is directly overhead at 23.5 degrees and -23.5 degrees. But when the earth starts revolving, the area of sun llight coming on the earth is not even and is high in the lower latitude of tropics.This results in distinct seasons across latitudes. Question 3: Answer: The holocene Epoch is a geological time scale divided to formulate the events occured in history of earth. At present holocene epoch of the quarternary period is where we are living.

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