Cellular Energy (and the Carbon Cycle)

Which gas do plants release, that humans depend on for survival?

• Water Vapor

• Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

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The process plants use to turn carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugar is called:

• Cellular Respiration

• Oxidation

• Photosynthesis

• Combustion

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Organisms that do not decompose may become buried and become what (after several million years)?

• water
• nutrients
• rocks

• fossil fuels

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Why is burning fossil fuels potentially harmful?

• They can cause cancer

• They can get extremely hot

• It increases the amount of carbon dioxode (greenhouse gases) in the air

• It destroys fossils that we find for the fossil record

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Which one of the following options does not add CO₂ to the atmosphere?

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

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Select ALL that apply:

Which of the following options removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

• Burning of fossil fuels for electricity

• Carbon dioxide dissolving into the oceans

• Plants using carbon dioxide in photosynthesis

• Living organisms exhaling carbon doixide

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The amount of carbon on Earth is not changing but is continually recycled in the carbon cycle.

• True
• False

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Select all that apply:

Carbon can be found in:

• The atmosphere
• Soil
• Oceans

• Living organisms

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Cellular respiration is the process by which animals take in _____ and release _____. 

• carbon dioxide, oxygen

• sugars, oxygen

• oxygen, sugars

• sugars, carbon dioxide

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How do animals get carbon?

• By eating plants and or other animals.

• They absorb it from the atmosphere.

• The absorb it from the ground.

• They do not get carbon from anywhere.

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