Ecology Check-In

What are the products of photosynthesis?

• water and carbon dioxide
• oxygen and glucose
• oxygen and carbon dioxide
• oxygen and water

Carbon dioxide is created by 

• Burning fossil fuels 
• Cellular respiration
• Decomposing organic matter
• All answers are correct

How do animals get carbon?

• By eating plants and or other animals.

• They absorb it from the atmosphere.

• From the ground

• They do not get carbon from anywhere.

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.

Which process takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere?

• respiration
• combustion
• decomposition
• photosynthesis

What is the an important element for living things.

• Neon
• Hydrogen
• Helium
• Carbon

Which of the following adds oxygen to the atmosphere

• forest fires
• photosynthesis
• weathering of rocks
• life processes of animals

Carbon is stored in

• trees and other living things
• oceans
• underground in soil and fossil fuels
• all are correct

In the carbon cycle, producers take in the gas __

• carbon dioxide
• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon monoxide

In what process is Carbon transformed into chemical energy?

• Photosynthesis
• Respiration
• Primary Production
• Secondary Production