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The process through which green plants use the energy of sunlight to make food is called...
The Carbon Cycle
Photosynthesis
Fossil Fuels
Combustion
These breakdown the remains of dead organisms...
Greenhouse Gases
Fossil Fuels
Decomposers
Factory Emissions
What is the process called when a substance combines with oxygen to release light and heat?
Combustion
Respiration
Photosynthesis
Decaying
How is carbon involved in photosynthesis?
Organisms release carbon from bodies of dead animals.
Carbon in fossil fuels is released through burning.
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%
18%
30%
8%
The rainforest does not help remove carbon from the atmosphere.
True
False
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.
True
False
Pick one way that carbon is released into the air.
Respiration
Photosynthesis
The Ocean
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...
Producers
Glucose
Chlorophyll
Chloroplasts
________ break down the carbon compounds when organisms die and release carbon as CO2.
Consumers
Producers
Respiration
Decomposers
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
Carbon dioxide is also released from rock through weathering and erosion.
True
False
