Environmentalists are monitoring an area of tropical forest. They made the following graph to predict the effect of deforestation on this area over the next 20 years. A scientist measured the amount of carbon dioxide stored by the plants in the forest. What would the graph of carbon dioxide storage look like?
A) it would be a decreasing line
B) it would increase, then decrease
C) it would be an increasing line
D) it would be a flat line
