Carbon Cycle

Carbon is sometimes found stored underground in the form of fossil fuels. Which of the following are considered fossile fuels?

• Oil

• Water

• Coal

• Gas

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What carbon containing gas is produced when wood or fossil fuels are burned?

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

• Chlorine

• Carbon Dioxide

Which organims take this gas out of the air and make food from it?

• Animals

• Plants

• Fish

• Bacteria

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What is respiration?

• The process where water is made

• The release of water from food

• The process where food is made

• The release of energy from food

Which of the following are consequences of global warming?

• More extreme weather conditions e.g. storms

• Rising sea levels

• Flooding

• Loss of habitats for plant and animals

• Extinction of plants and animals

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Which of the following best describes the term 'carbon footprint'?

• A measure of greenhouse gas emissions that are caused by the activities you do

• A measure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

• A measure of carbon dioxide plants absorb

• A measure of the activities you do day to day

Which one of these does not add CO2 to the atmosphere?

• cooking with gas
• planting trees
• burning wood
• riding in a bus

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

• True
• False

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Everyone has a carbon footprint.

• true 
• false

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