Carbon Lecture

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What is Carbon?

• Chemical backbone of life on Earth

• A gas that animals breathe in to stay alive

• A liquid that forms the oceans on Earth

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What does plants use carbon for?

• They take carbon from the soil to grow leaves and roots

• They absorb carbon dioxide to make water

• They absorb carbon dioxide from the air to produce energy through photosynthesis

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How does animals use carbon?

• They take in carbon from water to breathe

• They use carbon from sunlight to grow

• They eat plants or other animals to get carbon for building body tissues and producing energy

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What happens to plants and animals within the carbon cycle when they die?

• Their bodies disappear, and the carbon is lost forever

• most of their bodies are decomposed and carbon atoms are returned to the atmosphere.

• Their carbon becomes water that feeds other living things

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Where is most of the earths carbon stored?

• On Land

• In the Air

• In the Ocean

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Which have contributed to an increase of Carbon in the the atmosphere?

• The burning of fossil fuels

• carbon in rocks

• carbon in oceans

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Increased Carbon dioxide in the Atmosphere

• increases global warming.

• Creates more rain

• Increases Carbon in the ocean