Carbon Cycle Flashcard Review

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Which process decreases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Options: factories burning fossil fuels, photosynthesis, erosion

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photosynthesis

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Photosynthesis

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absorbs CO₂

Front

What are the products of photosynthesis?

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Glucose and oxygen

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What are the products of cellular respiration (ignoring ATP)?

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Carbon dioxide and water

Front

What reaction does this chemical equation represent?

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Cellular respiration

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What reaction does this chemical equation represent?

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Photosynthesis

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Cellular respiration

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releases CO₂

Front

All of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycle. True or False?

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True

Front

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

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fossil fuels

Front

Carbon can be found in...

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All of the above