ES - Carbon Cycle and Water Cycle

What are fossil fuels made from?

• Plants and animals that are buried underground for millions of years.

• They absorb it from the atmosphere.

• Water

• Wind

What is CO₂?

• Carbon Monoxide

• Carbon Trioxide

• Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen

Respiration is a process where living things (animals) inhale ______________ and exhale _____________________.

• Oxygen, Nitrogen

• Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen

• CO₂, O

• Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide

Which of the following are fossil fuels?

• Coal, water, oil

• Oxygen, coal, oil

• Coal, Oil, Natural Gas

• None of the above

Where can you find carbon?

• Only in Earth's atmosphere

• Inside all water molecules

• Inside the sun

• Inside every living thing on Earth

How is the carbon cycle similar to the water cycle?

• Both involve liquid substances falling to the Earth from the atmosphere?

• Neither process works at low temperature.

• Both involve the transfer of substances between animals, plants, and the Earth.

• Both involve the transfer of substances between the earth and outer space.

Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

How is the burning of fossil fuels related to global warming?

• Magic
• Fuels are hot
• Greenhouse effect
• Photosynthesis

Which process converts carbon in the form of sugar into carbon dioxide gas?

• Bioremediation
• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Transpiration

What is transpiration?

• Excess water being released from the leave
• Excess sugar being released from the leave
• The way a plant makes its food
• When the plant uses sugar for energy