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What would most likely occur if the number of power plants powered by fossilfuels worldwide increased?A. It would lower the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmospherebecause more natural gas would be burnedB. It would cause the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere toincrease because less natural gas would be burnedC. It would cause the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere toincrease because more coal would be burned.O D. It would lower the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmospherebecause less coal would be burned.

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The combustion of coal will add a significant amount of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and coal is found in dead animals or trees deposited and buried underground for hundreds of millions of year, so this fossil fuel being used in a power plant would vastly increase the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere, therefore letter C

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