Ecology Part 2

Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

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

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

Producers, like plants, do not cellular respiration.

• True

• False

What does NOT produce carbon dioxide?

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

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.

How does the carbon in grass become part of a lion?

• The lion eats the grass
• Carbon from grass doesn't end up in a lion. 
• The carbon ends up in the lion's food chain. 
• The lion breathes in carbon given out by the plant

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

• True
• False

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

• water
• nutrients
• air
• fossil fuels

Carbon dioxide is absorbed by producers to make what in photosynthesis?

• oxygen
• carbon
• carbohydrates
• water

When water falls from clouds in liquid or solid form

• precipitation

• condensation

• accumulation

• evaporation