
Carbon and the Carbon Cycle - Unit 2 Vocabulary
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Process by which producers make their own food. It moves carbon in the form of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to the biosphere. Both land and water producers do this process to make sugar (glucose).
Respiration
Combustion (Burning)
Decomposition
Photosynthesis
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-3
NGSS.MS-LS1-6
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Process that both producers and consumers do. Sugar (glucose) is broken down to form usable energy, heat, water and carbon dioxide. Producers and consumers then release the carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
Respiration
Decomposition
Compaction
Photosynthesis
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS1-7
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Process by which dead organisms, waste and other forms of organic matter are broken down by microorganisms and fungi. Carbon dioxide is formed during this process and released into the atmosphere.
Photosynthesis
Decomposition
Respiration
Combustion (Burning)
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Process by which carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dissolves into the ocean. Dissolved oceanic carbon dioxide can eventually be released back to the atmosphere.
Photosynthesis
Decomposition
Exchange
Sedimentation
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
Process by which increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are causing a decrease in the pH of oceans. This change negatively affects the shell and skeletal formation of marine creatures (calcifiers).
Combustion (burning)
Decomposition
Fossilization
Ocean Acidification
Tags
NGSS.HS-LS2-5
NGSS.HS-LS4-5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
When a system's carbon output (amount of carbon leaving) is greater than the carbon input (amount of carbon entering).
Carbon Cycle
Carbon Sink
Carbon Flow
Carbon Source
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-3
NGSS.MS-LS1-6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
5 mins • 1 pt
When a system's carbon output (amount of carbon leaving) is less than the carbon input (amount of carbon entering).
Carbon Cycle
Carbon Sink
Carbon Flow
Carbon Source
Tags
NGSS.HS-LS2-5
NGSS.HS-LS2-4
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