Study Jams the Carbon Cycle

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

• Water
• Atmosphere
• Sun
• Air

Combustion is another word for _______________.

• a train
• a bus
• a dog
• burning

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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
• growth and respiration
• metabolism and digestion

In the carbon cycle, producers take in the gas __

• carbon dioxide
• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon monoxide

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How does the carbon in grass become part of a lion?

• The lion eats the grass
• Carbon from grass doesn't end up in a lion. 
• The carbon ends up in the lion's food chain. 
• The lion breathes in carbon given out by the plant

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In what process is Carbon transformed into chemical energy?

• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Primary Production
• Secondary Production

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Which is true of the carbon cycle?

• Involves only the atmosphere and biosphere
• all processes are extremely slow
• moves carbon freely from the atmosphere to the hydrosphere
• does not involve the geosphere

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Which one of these increases the level of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere?

• Driving a car
• Traveling by plane
• Cutting down trees
• All the above

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In one of the steps of the carbon cycle, a person exhales a molecule of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. Which of the following is most likely to happen next to the atom of carbon in this molecule?

• It may be used as part of a sugar in a plant.
• It may become part of a protein in an animal.
• It may be consumed as a fossil fuel is burned.
•  It may be decomposed into carbon and oxygen by a bacterium.

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