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

Photosynthesis

Respiration

Combustion

Decaying

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

False

True

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

Cellular Respiration

Photosynthesis

Glucose

Chlorophyll

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

False

True

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

False

True

The rainforest does not help remove carbon from the atmosphere.

True

False

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

Planting Trees

Eating fast food

Burning less fossil fuels

Restpring habitats

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

False

True

How much carbon is in the human body?

30%

25%

18%

8%

Respiration traps carbon into compounds and photosynthesis releases it.

False

True

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

Fast Track

Chlorophyll

Slow Track

Decomposers

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

True

False

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

Photosynthesis

Decomposers

Producers

Aerobic Respiration

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

True

False

These breakdown the remains of dead organisms...

Decomposers

Greenhouse Gases

Fossil Fuels

Factory Emissions

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

True

False

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

The Carbon Cycle

Fossil Fuels

Combustion

Photosynthesis

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

True

False

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

Glucose

Producers

Chloroplasts

Chlorophyll

Pick one way that carbon is released into the air.

The Ocean

Photosynthesis

Respiration

How is carbon involved in photosynthesis?

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.

Plants use carbon from carbon dioxide to make glucose.

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

False

True

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

Producers

Respiration

Consumers

Decomposers