APES Carbon Cycle

What does not produce carbon dioxide?

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

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which of the following removes carbon from the atmosphere?

• Combustion
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis
• Death

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The amount of primary productivity generated by all producers in a given ecosystem is called __________________________________

• Gross primary production

• Net primary production

• Total cell respiration

• Trophic levels

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Coniferous (Or Boreal) forests are characterized by:

• Pine forests, quarterly seasons, permafrost, large mammals, and no reptiles.

• Pine forests, cold winters, spring water movement, large mammals,and no reptiles.

• Pine forests, summer temperatures above 110^oC, few large mammals, and extremely diverse amphibian species.

• Grasslands, extremely diverse insects, few trees, and seasonal fires.

If you are an organism whose realized niche is to break down organic matter from the ecosystem into nutrients, you are probably a ____________.

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Primary consumer

• Decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

.What is the effect of deforestation on the carbon cycle? 

•  Increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere  
• Decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere 
• Increase in the amount of photosynthesis 
• Deforestation has no impact on the carbon cycle 

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Which one of these does not add CO2 to the atmosphere?

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

When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the                       as carbon dioxide.

• Water
• Atmosphere
• Sun
• Air

Why is the ocean important to the carbon cycle?

• It keeps sediment containing carbon underwater for millions of years
• The ocean gives out more carbon then it takes in (increases global warming)
• The ocean isn't important to the carbon cycle.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is happening at 1?

• respiration: releasing CO2
• decomposing CO2 in the soil
• photosynthesis: absorbing CO2
• turning CO2 from the atmosphere into organic molecules

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3