Carbon Cycle Vocabulary

a gas without color or smell, that burns easily and is used as fuel. Natural gas consists mainly of this...

• Carbon

• Glucose

• Carbonate

• Methane

a chemical element found in all living things, existing in a pure state in two main forms (diamond and graphite)

• Carbon

• Glucose

• Carbon dioxide

• Carbon monoxide

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

a gas breathed out by people and animals from the lungs or produced by burning carbon

• Carbonate

• Carbon dioxide

• Methane

• Glucose

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a poisonous gas formed when carbon burns partly but not completely. It is produced when gas is burned in car engines.

• Carbonate

• Carbon

• Carbon monoxide

• Glucose

a salt that contains carbon and oxygen together with another chemical

• Carbonate

• Glucose

• Carbon monoxide

• Methane

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

a simple type of sugar that is an important energy source in living things and which is a part of many carbohydrates

• Reservoir

• Glucose

• Carbon

• Carbon dioxide

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

a large amount of something that is available to be used

• Reservoir

• Flux

• Rate

• Photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Match the following

• Influx

• the flowing out of a particular substance or particle

• Flux

• continuous movement and change

• Efflux

• a lot of people, money, or things arriving somewhere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

a measurement of the speed at which something happens

• Diffusion

• Combusition

• Rate

• Efflux

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NGSS.HS-PS1-5

the process by which green plants turn carbon dioxide and water into food using energy obtained from light from the sun

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Decomposition

• Diffusion

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6