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