The Carbon Cycle Basic Vocabulary

This Carbon Cycle interacts with the rock cycle.

• Geological Carbon Cycle

• Biological Carbon Cycle

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The process by which plants use carbon dioxide to create carbohydrates.

• respiration

• photosynthesis

• decomposition

• diffusion

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When things happen repeatedly.

• carbon

• cycle

• system

• circle

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A process that breaks down dead plants and animals releasing carbon into the soil.

• respiration

• photosynthesis

• combustion

• decomposition

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This is used to make the shells of marine organisms.

• carbon

• calcium carbonate

• rocks

• seashells

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Microscopic marine plants

• seaweed

• phytoplankton

• carbon

• krill

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The fourth most abundant element in the universe.

• oxygen

• nitrogen

• argon

• carbon

Seafloor spreading pushes the seafloor under continental margins in this process.

• subduction

• diffusion

• consumption

• respiration

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The Carbon Cycle that interacts with living organisms.

• Geological Carbon Cycle

• Biological Carbon Cycle

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Organic matter thats been buried for thousands of years used for energy

• decomposition

• fossil fuels

• calcium carbonate

• phytoplankton

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