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Type your response in the box. Plants remove carbon from the atmosphere in the form of CO2 and store it in their structures. How can rapid deforestation affect the carbon cycle? What can be done to reduce the effects? Explain.

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Deforestation affects carbon cycle through the Greenhouse gas effect and global warming. Green plants, trees and forest helps to balance the amount of Carbon in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide is used up by plant through the process of photosynthesis in which plants make their own food. When there is excess amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as a result of deforestation ‘blanket’ of carbon dioxide is formed which traps heat and prevents it from leaving the earth surface in the atmosphere. This accumulated heat leads to global warming in the environment. More trees should be planted to prevent rise in atmospheric a carbon and deforestation should be prevented.

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Deforestation has an effect on the Carbon Cycle also known as the Greenhouse gas effect and global warming. Trees and forest balance the amount of Carbon in the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis in which plants make their own food with carbon dioxide. And when we remove the plants that turn CO2 into breathable air we have more CO2 over all.

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