Carbon Cycle

Organic matter, burred over millions of years

• Fossil Fuels

• Decomposition

• Combustion

• Subduction

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oxygen is a gas produced by _ and used by  _ 

• plants and animals 
• photosynthesis and carbon dioxide 
• animals and plants 
• carbon dioxide and photosynthesis

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All of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycle

• True
• False

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

• Magic
• Fuels are hot
• Greenhouse effect
• Photosynthesis

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Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

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Which describes the relationship between plants and animals in the carbon cycle?

• Plants produce and release oxygen that animals need

• Plants produce and release carbon dioxide that animals need

• Animals produce and release oxygen that plants need

• Animals produce oxygen that plants turn into carbon dioxide

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Plants use ____________ to make their own food

• Water

• Sunlight

• Carbon dioxide

• All of these

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Carbon molecules cannot be created or destroyed

• True

• False

• Not enough information to answer

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Carbon can be found in...

• The atmosphere
• Soil
• Fossil fuels
• All of the above

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How do living organisms return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?

• respiration and photosynthesis
•  decomposition and respiration

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