Benchmark 1 Review

What is it called when plants give off water vapor as a waste product?

• condensation
• evaporation
• sublimation
• transpiration

What is happening in step

1?

• Animals are decomposing and releasing carbon into the soil.

• Animals are releasing oxygen into the environment and storing carbon.

• Animals are turning carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into oxygen.

• Animals are breaking down organic molecules and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

What number represents combustion in this diagram?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

What number would represent photosynthesis in this
diagram?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

How is combustion similar to cellular respiration?

• It can occur only in living things.
• It removes energy from the environment.
• It increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the environment.
• It needs glucose and oxygen to occur.

How does the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect climate?

• As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures increase
• As carbon dioxide concentration increase, temperatures decrease.
• Carbon dioxide concentrations have no affect on climate
• As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures become more random.

Carbon can be found in...

• The atmosphere
• Soil
• Fossil fuels
• All of the above

If the plant population decreased, the amount of carbon would _________.

• Stay the same
• Increase
• Decrease

Combustion is another word for __________.

• Burning

• Cellular Respiration

• Transpiration

• Fossil Fuels

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

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere