Carbon Cycle and Greenhouse

(a)   removes carbon from the atmosphere.

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

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All of the carbon in existence is continually recycled in the carbon cycle

• True
• False

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What does NOT produce carbon dioxide?

• Photosynthesis
• Burning Fossil Fuels
• Animal respiration
• Plants decaying

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Combustion is another word for __________.

• Transportation
• Respiration
• Fossil Fuels
• Burning

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Which gas do plants release, that humans depend on for survival?

• Water

• Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen

• Sugar

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Plants use (a)   to make their own food

• Water
• Sunlight
• Carbon dioxide
• All of these

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Which process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?

• deforestation

• tree farms

• burning fossil fuels

• cellular respiration

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When organisms die, what process returns their carbon back into the atmosphere?

• Respiration

• Decomposition

• Combustion

• Erosion

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(a)   does not add CO2 to the atmosphere.

• cooking with gas
• planting trees
• burning wood
• riding in a bus

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Why does cutting down trees increase global warming?

• trees soak up carbon dioxide
• trees provide shade which counteracts global warming
• trees absorbs the sun's energy without radiating back into the atmosphere
• trees drain greenhouse gases like methane from soil

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