Carbon Cycle | Baamboozle - Baamboozle | The Most Fun Classroom Games!

0%

0 0 0

Back Restart

How is carbon involved in photosynthesis?

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.

Carbon in fossil fuels is released through burning.

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

Cellular Respiration

Photosynthesis

Glucose

Chlorophyll

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

Decomposers

Producers

Aerobic Respiration

Photosynthesis

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

True

False

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

Producers

Decomposers

Respiration

Consumers

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

True

False

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

True

False

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

Photosynthesis

Respiration

Decaying

Combustion

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

The Carbon Cycle

Photosynthesis

Fossil Fuels

Combustion

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

False

True

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

Producers

Chlorophyll

Chloroplasts

Glucose

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

Restpring habitats

Planting Trees

Burning less fossil fuels

Eating fast food

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

False

True

Respiration traps carbon into compounds and photosynthesis releases it.

True

False

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

True

False

Pick one way that carbon is released into the air.

The Ocean

Respiration

Photosynthesis

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

True

False

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

False

True

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

Fossil Fuels

Factory Emissions

Greenhouse Gases

The rainforest does not help remove carbon from the atmosphere.

True

False

How much carbon is in the human body?

18%

8%

30%

25%

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

True

False