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

Decomposers

Slow Track

Chlorophyll

Fast Track

These breakdown the remains of dead organisms...

Decomposers

Factory Emissions

Fossil Fuels

Greenhouse Gases

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

True

False

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

False

True

How much carbon is in the human body?

18%

8%

25%

30%

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

Fossil Fuels

Photosynthesis

Combustion

The Carbon Cycle

This is a green pigment molecule that absorbs energy from sunlight...

Photosynthesis

Chlorophyll

Glucose

Cellular Respiration

Pick one way that carbon is released into the air.

The Ocean

Respiration

Photosynthesis

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 dioxide is also released from rock through weathering and erosion.

True

False

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

Producers

Consumers

Respiration

Decomposers

Oceans play a major role in the carbon cycle by absorbing carbon dioxide.

True

False

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

True

False

Plants, animals, and most other living things combine oxygen with glucose during...

Aerobic Respiration

Decomposers

Producers

Photosynthesis

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

True

False

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

False

True

Most carbon on Earth is recycled through a fast track

True

False

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

Chlorophyll

Producers

Glucose

Chloroplasts

Respiration traps carbon into compounds and photosynthesis releases it.

True

False

Humans can only impact the carbon cycle in a negative way.

True

False

Each time you exhale (breathe) you are releasing carbon dioxide into the air.

True

False

The fast track can take minutes to years to complete.

True

False

The rainforest does not help remove carbon from the atmosphere.

True

False

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

Combustion

Decaying

Respiration

Photosynthesis

Which human activity DOES NOT help remove carbon dioxide from the carbon cycle?

Eating fast food

Planting Trees

Burning less fossil fuels

Restpring habitats