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Water and carbon cycle

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True or false: carbon is constantly moving through the geosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.

true

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How are fossil fuels related to global warming?

too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere makes it hot

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What process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

burning of fossil fuels

death and decay

photosynthesis

respiration

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Carbon dioxide is taken in by __________ and released by __________.

plants animals

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What is another word for combustion?

burning

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True or false: Carbon is essential for all living organisms to survive.

true

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The oceans and the rainforests are carbon sinks. What is a carbon sink?

Takes in large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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The ocean absorbs huge amounts of carbon. Ocean organisms use this carbon dioxide to make what...

shells

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The evaporation of water vapor from plants and trees is called...

transpiration

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Water vapor that rises in the atmosphere and cools to create clouds is the process of...

condensation

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Water that is changing from a liquid to a gas is going through the process of...

evaporation

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What process is going on in the image?

Precipitation

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What energy source runs the water cycle?

the sun

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True or false: A cycle has no real beginning or end.

true

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