carbon Cycle

When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the                       as carbon dioxide.

• Water
• Atmosphere
• Sun
• Air

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What does not produce carbon dioxide?

• Photosynthesis
• Burning Fossil Fuels
• Animal respiration
• Plants decaying

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How do living organisms return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?

• respiration and photosynthesis
•  decomposition and respiration

Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what?

• water
• nutrients
• air
• fossil fuels

How do animals get carbon?

• Photosynthesis

• They absorb it from the atmosphere

• The sun

• They eat other plants and animals

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What is CO2?

• Air

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Dioxide

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All things are made out of carbon or need carbon to live.

• True

• False

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How is the carbon cycle similar to the water cycle?

• Both involve liquid substances falling to the Earth from the atmosphere?

• Neither process works at low temperature.

• Both involve the transfer of substances between animals, plants, and the Earth.

• Both involve the transfer of substances between the earth and outer space.

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Carbon can be found in...

• The atmosphere
• Soil
• Fossil fuels
• All of the above

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This reservoir of carbon is the air and gasses that surround the Earth.

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Lithosphere

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