Carbon and the Carbon Cycle - Unit 2 Vocabulary

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

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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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

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

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)

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

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

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NGSS.HS-LS2-5

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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

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

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Concentrated forms of non-renewable energy. Created over millions of years from dead organisms which fossilized and compacted under heat and pressure.

• Natural Gas

• Fossil Fuels

• Coal

• Oil

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A type of fossil fuel which formed from dead land plants over millions of years. The plants died, were buried and under heat and pressure were transformed.

• Natural Gas

• Fossil Fuels

• Coal

• Oil

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A type of fossil fuel which formed from dead marine organisms (plankton) over millions of years. The plankton died, sank to the ocean floor, were buried and under heat and pressure transformed.

• Natural Gas

• Fossil Fuels

• Coal

• Oil

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1