Carbon Cycle

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

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How is combustion similar to cellular respiration?

• It can occur only in living things.
• It removes energy from the environment.
• It increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the environment.
• It needs glucose and oxygen to occur.

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How does carbon move in this scenario?

• consumption

• combustion

• photosynthesis

• decomposition

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Carbon can be found _________________.

• only in the biosphere.

• in the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and the hydrosphere. 

• only in the atmosphere.

• only in the hydrosphere.

• only in the geosphere. 

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Which of the following moves carbon dioxide into the atmosphere? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

• Respiration (exhaling)

• Burning of fossil fuels

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

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What are the 2 ways that carbon is moved out of the atmosphere?

• plants performing photosynthesis.

• animal respiration.

• burning fossil fuels.

• decomposition 

• diffusion into the oceans

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How is the carbon found in fossil fuels moved into the atmosphere?

• photosynthesis

• combustion

• diffusion

• respiration

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Matter, like carbon, continuously moves between the living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem.

• True

• False

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How is carbon moved from a producer to a consumer?

• combustion

• photosynthesis

• respiration

• consumption

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Select all of the fossil fuels.

• Coal

• Oil

• Natural Gas

• Wind Energy