Carbon Cycle

Which process is primarily responsible for the transfer of carbon from the geosphere back into the atmosphere?

• Photosynthesis

• Erosion

• Volcanic activity

• Decomposition of organic matter

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is the primary component of the molecules that make up living organisms?

• Oxygen

• Hydrogen

• Carbon

• Nitrogen

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NGSS.HS-LS1-6

The factor contributes to the carbon cycle.

• Fossil Fuel combustion

• Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The source of carbon to plants in the carbon cycle is

• Fossil fuel

• carbon rocks

• atmospheric carbon dioxide

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The role of bacteria in the carbon cycle is

• Breakdown of organic compounds

• chemosynthesis

• photosynthesis

• Assimilation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In the carbon cycle, the human body returns carbon to the atmosphere through this way

• formation of glucose

• waste products

• photosynthesis

• cellular respiration

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Respiration and photosynthesis are central to this process

• Nitrogen cycle

• Phosphorous cycle

• Carbon cycle

• Sulphur cycle

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Most of the global warming is due to the perturbation of which of these cycles?

• Global nitrogen cycle

• Global carbon cycle

• Global water cycle

• All of these cycles equally contribute

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

By this method, the majority of carbon moves from the lithosphere to the atmosphere

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• fossil fuel burning

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

These entities sequester most carbon from the atmosphere

• Plants

• Archaea

• Bacteria

• Insects

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6