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The process through which green plants use the energy of sunlight to make food is called...
Fossil Fuels
Combustion
The Carbon Cycle
Photosynthesis
These breakdown the remains of dead organisms...
Decomposers
Greenhouse Gases
Fossil Fuels
Factory Emissions
What is the process called when a substance combines with oxygen to release light and heat?
Respiration
Decaying
Photosynthesis
Combustion
How is carbon involved in photosynthesis?
Organisms release carbon from bodies of dead animals.
Plants use carbon from carbon dioxide to make glucose.
Carbon in fossil fuels is released through burning.
Animals break down the glucose to release carbon in CO2.
Carbon is released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.
True
False
How much carbon is in the human body?
8%
30%
18%
25%
The rainforest does not help remove carbon from the atmosphere.
True
False
Ocean water does a lot to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere.
False
True
Burning fossil fuels like coal, gas, and oil releases little carbon into the air.
True
False
Pick one way that carbon is released into the air.
Photosynthesis
The Ocean
Respiration
When plants/animals die, the carbon in their body is either released or stored as fossil fuels.
False
True
Plants, algae, and some bacteria are known as...
Glucose
Chlorophyll
Producers
Chloroplasts
________ break down the carbon compounds when organisms die and release carbon as CO2.
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Respiration
Most carbon on Earth is recycled through a fast track
False
True
Millions of yrs ago, remains of plants became buried in sediment under swamps and became coal.
False
True
This is what carbon is recycled through and can take millions of years...
Decomposers
Fast Track
Slow Track
Chlorophyll
