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Human activities interfere with carbon cycle. List any two such activities.

Two major human activities which interfere with the carbon cycle is:

i) Deforestation of trees: The deforestation of trees means less production of oxygen in the air as well as less consumption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by the trees. Thus, carbon levels would rise.


ii) Rapidly burning of fossil fuels: The fossil fuels like coal, petroleum, etc are used for cooking and transport. These fossil fuels are burned and they emit carbon components in the environment which leads to an increase in carbon and interferes with the normal carbon cycle.


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