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The process through which green plants use the energy of sunlight to make food is called...
Fossil Fuels
Photosynthesis
The Carbon Cycle
Combustion
These breakdown the remains of dead organisms...
Greenhouse Gases
Decomposers
Fossil Fuels
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?
Plants use carbon from carbon dioxide to make glucose.
Carbon in fossil fuels is released through burning.
Organisms release carbon from bodies of dead animals.
Animals break down the glucose to release carbon in CO2.
Carbon is released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.
False
True
How much carbon is in the human body?
25%
30%
20%
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.
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
Respiration
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...
Chloroplasts
Glucose
Chlorophyll
Producers
________ break down the carbon compounds when organisms die and release carbon as CO.
Respiration
Consumers
Producers
Decomposers
Millions of yrs ago, remains of plants became buried in sediment under swamps and became coal.
True
False
Carbon dioxide is also released from rock through weathering and erosion.
False
True
Respiration traps carbon into compounds and photosynthesis releases it.
False
True
