Video Lesson

Pre-Watching the video

1. What do you know about carbon? Can you say any words related to it?

2. Match the words in the first column to their definition in the second one:
a. to release (verb) ( ) to increase in size or amount
b. soil (noun) ( ) to use something such as fuel or energy
c. stored (adj.) ( ) to allow a substance to flow out from somewhere
d. to grow (verb) ( ) to cause something to increase or become greater
e. ancient (adj.) ( ) things put or kept  for use in the future
f. coal (noun) ( ) a hard, black substance used as a fuel
g. trapped (adj.) ( ) the material on the surface of the ground
h. to burn (verb) ( ) to put too many things in or on something
i. to overload (verb) ( ) very old
j. to build up (phr. verb) ( ) something kept one place, especially because it
is useful

Watching the video

1. Fill in the blanks according to what you hear while you watch the video:

a. Carbon works in a _______________ cycle, present in all _______________ things: in the

_______________, in the oceans, in the atmosphere and in _______________ deep underground.
b. But over _______________ of years, some of the carbon _______________ in _______________
trees and sea _______________ becomes rock and some becomes fossil _______________: coal,
_______________ and natural gas.

c. That _______________ Earth's carbon cycle and _______________ up in the atmosphere and

_______________.

2. Mark (T) if the statement is true or (F) if the statement if false, according to the video?

a. Today, humans release around 50 times more carbon than all the volcanoes on the planet each
year. (TRUE / FALSE)

b. When plants and other living things die, all of their stored carbon makes its way back to the
atmosphere until new plants grow and reabsorb the carbon. (TRUE / FALSE)

3. Answer the question, according to the video:

a. What is the only sure way to stop global warming?
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Post-Watching the video

What do you do to help stop releasing this excess carbon into our air?