Carbon Cycle Review

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

• True

• False

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How do humans obtain their carbon?

• From absorbing sunlight

• From inhaling carbon

• From eating plants and animals

• From cow farts

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How does carbon move from the biosphere (all living things) into the atmosphere?

• Through cellular respiration

• Through photosynthesis

• Through burning fossil fuels

• Through carbon dissolving in the ocean

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What is NOT a carbon molecule

• Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

• Glucose (C6H12O6)

• Carbon Monoxide (CO)

• Oxygen (O2)

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.

  
  

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According to most scientists, activities like fossil fuel burning and deforestation have affected the global carbon cycle.

• True

• False

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In the oceans; algae, plants, and other organisms use carbon from the atmosphere for _____.

• Cellular Respiration

• Decomposition

• Transpiration

• Photosynthesis

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Which of the following REMOVES carbon from the atmosphere

• Burning Fossil Fuels

• Cellular Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

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Global warming refers specifically to an increase in...

• The number of storms on Earth

• Precipitation from Earth's atmosphere

• Temperatures at the equator

• Earth's average surface temperature

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How might burning fossil fuels be creating global warming?

• Because fossil fuels will be all used up in a few decades

• Because burning fossil fuels in a very dangerous process

• Because burning fossil fuels adds CO₂ to the atmosphere faster than it can be removed.

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