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The process through which green plants use the energy of sunlight to make food is called...

Fossil Fuels

Combustion

Photosynthesis

The Carbon Cycle

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These breakdown the remains of dead organisms...

Decomposers

Greenhouse Gases

Factory Emissions

Fossil Fuels

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What is the process called when a substance combines with oxygen to release light and heat?

Respiration

Decaying

Combustion

Photosynthesis

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How is carbon involved in photosynthesis?

Plants use carbon from carbon dioxide to make glucose.

Animals break down the glucose to release carbon in CO2.

Organisms release carbon from bodies of dead animals.

Carbon in fossil fuels is released through burning.

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Carbon is released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.

False

True

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How much carbon is in the human body?

30%

18%

8%

25%

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The rainforest does not help remove carbon from the atmosphere.

False

True

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Ocean water does a lot to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere.

False

True

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Burning fossil fuels like coal, gas, and oil releases little carbon into the air.

False

True

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Pick one way that carbon is released into the air.

The Ocean

Respiration

Photosynthesis

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When plants/animals die, the carbon in their body is either released or stored as fossil fuels.

True

False

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Plants, algae, and some bacteria are known as...

Producers

Chlorophyll

Glucose

Chloroplasts

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________ break down the carbon compounds when organisms die and release carbon as CO2.

Decomposers

Consumers

Producers

Respiration

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Most carbon on Earth is recycled through a fast track

False

True

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Millions of yrs ago, remains of plants became buried in sediment under swamps and became coal.

False

True

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This is what carbon is recycled through and can take millions of years...

Decomposers

Slow Track

Fast Track

Chlorophyll

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