Carbon and Oxygen Cycle

How does carbon get from animals and back into the atmosphere? (CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY)

• Respiration (breathing)

• After they die, they are broken down by decomposers

• Photosynthesis

• None of these

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What do 'plants' do with the carbon they receive?

• They turn it into water

• They don't need carbon

• They turn it into food by photosynthesis

• They keep it forever

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When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the                       as carbon dioxide.

• Water
• Atmosphere
• Sun
• Air

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Which of the following add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

• volcanoes
• combustion of fossil fuels
• animal and plant respiration
• all of these

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Organisms that do not decompose can be buried and become what?

• water
• nutrients
• air
• fossil fuels

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Which process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

• deforestation

• tree farms

• burning fossil fuels

• cellular respiration

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Which of the following is correct?

• There is as much carbon on earth as when it was formed

• Carbon is being created whenever it is recycled

• Carbon is lost every time it is recycled

• Carbon changes to different forms and is never recovered

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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Respiration is the process by which animals take in _____ and release _____ to make energy. 

• photosynthesis, air
• carbon, oxygen
• oxygen
• oxygen, carbon dioxide

What is the process of plants taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen called?

• Respiration

• Produce

• Photosynthesis

• Breathing

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What do 'plants' do with the carbon they receive?

• They turn it into water

• They don't need carbon

• They turn it into food by photosynthesis

• They keep it forever

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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