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

The Carbon Cycle

Combustion

Photosynthesis

Fossil Fuels

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These breakdown the remains of dead organisms...

Decomposers

Factory Emissions

Greenhouse Gases

Fossil Fuels

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

Decaying

Photosynthesis

Respiration

Combustion

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How is carbon involved in photosynthesis?

Organisms release carbon from bodies of dead animals.

Carbon in fossil fuels is released through burning.

Animals break down the glucose to release carbon in CO2.

Plants use carbon from carbon dioxide to make glucose.

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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?

8%

25%

30%

18%

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The rainforest does not help remove carbon from the atmosphere.

True

False

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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.

True

False

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Pick one way that carbon is released into the air.

Photosynthesis

Respiration

The Ocean

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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...

Chloroplasts

Glucose

Producers

Chlorophyll

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

Respiration

Decomposers

Consumers

Producers

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

True

False

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

Chlorophyll

Fast Track

Decomposers

Slow Track

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Carbon dioxide is also released from rock through weathering and erosion.

True

False

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