6. Exit Ticket: Carbon Cycle

What are two (2) ways to reduce the carbon emissions from passenger cars?

• Use less expensive gas

• Carpooling

• Public Transportation

• Driving only passenger cars

Which process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

• deforestation

• tree farms

• burning fossil fuels

• cellular respiration

Which of the following is the correct equation for PHOTOSYNTHESIS?

• CO₂ +light+H₂O --> O₂ + glucose

• CO₂ + glucose + H₂O --> O₂ + light

• _O2 + light + H₂O --> CO₂ + Glucosg

• CO₂ + O₂ + H₂O --> Light+ glucose

Cellular Respiration involves the chemical breakdown of _____ to form ATP Energy

• Fats

• Fructose

• Glucose

• Proteins

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Cellular Respiration

Decomposition...

• releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when plants and animals breathe out

• helps plants create their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide

• creates carbon dioxide from dead and decaying plants and animals

• when we burn things such as trees, decaying plants and animals, and fossil fuels

Burning fossil fuel has which effect in the carbon cycle?

• It removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
• It puts carbon dioxide under the ground.
• It adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
• It has no effect in the carbon cycle.

The step of the carbon cycle that is in red is called...

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

• Respiration

• Combustion

The process where carbon can be added back into the atmosphere by animals, plants and marine life.

• Volcanism

• Acid Rain

• Respiration

• Combustion

Which of the following REMOVES carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion

• Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

Plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere in order to produce glucose for survival.

• Combustion

• Volcanism

• Photosynthesis

• Consumption