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Questions:
1. The average household in the United States uses about 1200 gallons of gasoline each year. How mar similar to your tree would be needed to sequester the carbon dioxide produced by burning that much gasoline? Show your calculations with your answer
2. Every year your tree will absorb more carbon to make its trunk larger, expand its root system, to grow leaves (needles) and to produce pine cones and seeds for reproduction. What happens to the carbon stored in the needles and pinecones when they decompose on the ground?
3. If your tree is struck by lightning and burns, what happens to the carbon that is stored in the tree?
4. Write the balanced overall chemical equation for the process by which your tree absorbs carbon dioxid the atmosphere. What is this process called?
5. Define the following terms. model, sequester, combustion, and stoichiometry.
6. In this activity, a mathematical model was used. How do you think the U.S. Forest Service developed th model? How could the accuracy of the model be checked?
7. What is an advantage of using a mathematical hodel? What is a disadvantage?
8. Hurricane paths are predicted by mathematical models. What is your experience with the accuracy of t hurricane models?