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What is the largest carbon sink in the world?

• The Amazon
• The Oceans
• The Deserts
• The Forests

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How do living organisms return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?

• respiration and photosynthesis
•  decomposition and respiration

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Forests provide all of these ecosystem services except

• increase CO2 in the carbon cycle
• influence climate
• store atmospheric carbon
• provide health benefits

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Which sphere is NOT represented: A rain storm with strong wind blows down a tree.

• Geosphere

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

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True or False: Plants have/need BOTH chloroplasts and mitochondria?

• TRUE

• FALSE

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Deforestation in an area would MOST LIKELY cause

• Increased levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere.

• Increased level of Oxygen in the atmosphere.

• Decreased levels of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere

• Decreased levels of Nitrogen in the atmosphere

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Photosynthesis is important because...

• it makes carbon dioxide

• it makes food for the food webs

• it makes water

• it's not important

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Which of the following is a carbon SINK?

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Combustion

• Forest fires

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5.6-5.8 How can the planting of new trees help reduce climate change?

• Trees help create breezes.

• Trees release moisture that cools the atmosphere.

• Trees take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.

• Trees block the release of greenhouse gases from soil.

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Which biome would have the lowest net primary production?

• tropical rain forest

• temperate grassland

• coral reef

• desert

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