Carbon Cycle

What do 'plants' do with the carbon they receive?

• They turn it into water

• They don't need carbon

• They turn it into food by photosynthesis

• They keep it forever

Choose all the items made out of carbon

• Food

• Animals

• Plants

• Tennis Racket

• Pretty much everything

How does carbon get from animals and back into the atmosphere? (CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY)

• Respiration (breathing)

• After they die, they are broken down by decomposers

• Photosynthesis

• None of these

How do animals get carbon?

• Photosynthesis

• They absorb it from the atmosphere

• The sun

• They eat other plants and animals

What is CO2?

• Air

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Dioxide

All things are made out of carbon or need carbon to live.

• True

• False

What is causing global warming? (Choose All That Apply)

• The earth is too close to the sun

• There is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

• Because we're running out of water

• Because we're cutting down all the trees and not planting more

This process takes fossil fuel or any dead plant life, and through burning, releases energy and Carbon Dioxide

• Photosynthesis
• Cellular Respiration
• Combustion
• Decomposition

The total set of carbon emissions caused by an individual.

• carbon cycle

• carbon handprint

• carbon footprint

• carbon summary

______________ hold heat energy in the atmosphere, which raises the overall temperature of the Earth.

• Greenhouse gases

• Fossil fuels

• Carbon sinks

• Clouds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5