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Humans are the only living organisms that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

False

True

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

True

False

Pick one way that carbon is released into the air.

Photosynthesis

The Ocean

Respiration

What is the process that plants use to capture carbondioxide?

Eating

Respiration

Photosynthesis

Decomposition

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

Eating fast food

Restoring habitats

Burning less fossil fuels

Planting Trees

What things need nutrients to survive?

Living things

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

True

False

What does consumed mean?

Eaten

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

Photosynthesis

Combustion

Respiration

Decaying

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

Decomposers

Photosynthesis

Aerobic Respiration

Producers

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

False

True

Respiration traps carbon into compounds and photosynthesis releases it.

True

False

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

True

False

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

Photosynthesis

Combustion

Fossil Fuels

The Carbon Cycle

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

True

False

How much carbon is in the human body?

30%

8%

25%

20%

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

False

True

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

Chlorophyll

Chloroplasts

Producers

Glucose

These breakdown the remains of dead organisms...

Greenhouse Gases

Fossil Fuels

Decomposers

Factory Emissions

More carbon is made every day

True

False

Photosynthesis is a process that animals do

False

True

How is carbon involved in photosynthesis?

Animals break down the glucose to release carbon in CO2.

Plants use carbon from carbon dioxide to make glucose.

Organisms release carbon from bodies of dead animals.

Carbon in fossil fuels is released through burning.

What is the process where decomposers release carbon dioxide?

Respiration

Decomposition

Photosynthesis

Eating

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

Photosynthesis

Glucose

Chlorophyll

Cellular Respiration

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

True

False

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

True

False

The rainforest does not help remove carbon from the atmosphere.

True

False

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

Producers

Consumers

Decomposers

Respiration

What is the process where animals release carbon dioxide?

Photosynthesis

Decomposition

Eating

Respiration

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

False

True