Carbon Cycle

What process takes carbon from the air and into plants (atmosphere to biosphere)?

• erosion
• photosynthesis
• combustion
• rock cycle

What process takes carbon from the Earth and into the atmosphere(geosphere to atmosphere)?

• erosion
• photosynthesis
• combustion
• rock cycle

What process allows carbon to cycle in the Earth (geosphere to geosphere)?

• erosion
• photosynthesis
• combustion
• rock cycle

What process takes carbon from the Earth into the ocean? (geosphere tohydrosphere)

• erosion
• photosynthesis
• combustion
• rock cycle

What process takes carbon from the ocean into the atmosphere(hydrosphere to atmosphere)?

• evaporation
• photosynthesis
• combustion
• rock cycle

What process takes carbon from the atmosphere into the soil (atmosphere to  geosphere)?

• erosion
• photosynthesis
• diffusion
• decomposition

What process takes carbon from dead living things into the soil?

• erosion
• photosynthesis
• diffusion
• decomposition

How does carbon cycle in the oceans and in the atmosphere?

• erosion
• convection
• diffusion
• decomposition

When ocean waters warm (the water is hot) carbon dioxide is ____________the atmosphere.

• redirected into
• released into
• not released into

When ocean waters cool (the water freezes) carbon dioxide is____________ the atmosphere.

• redirected into
• not absorbed from
• absorbed from