Carbon Cycle

Carbon can be found in...

• The atmosphere
• Soil
• Fossil fuels
• All of the above

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How is the carbon cycle similar to the water cycle?

• Both involve liquid substances falling to the Earth from the atmosphere?

• Neither process works at low temperature.

• Both involve the transfer of substances between animals, plants, and the Earth.

• Both involve the transfer of substances between the earth and outer space.

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

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

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Which gas do animals release, that plants depend on for survival?

• Carbon dioxide

• Oxygen

• Sunlight

• Water

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Which of the following processes does NOT move carbon to the atmosphere?

• Animal respiration (Breathing)

• Volcanic eruption

• Photosynthesis

• Burning fossil fuels

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

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

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What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale
• Eating too much vegetables
• Going to a forest and pulling weeds
• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

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How do plants affect the air that animals and people breathe?

• Plants use oxygen from the air to make their own food

• Plants release pollution into the air

• Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen

• Plants take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide

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Why does cutting down trees increase global warming?

• trees soak up carbon dioxide and removing them causes more carbon to stay in the atmosphere

• trees provide shade which counteracts global warming

• trees absorbs the sun's energy without radiating back into the atmosphere

• trees drain greenhouse gases like methane from soil

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Why is burning fossil fuels harmful?

• they cause cancer

• They can get extremely hot

• it increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

• this would destroy fossils

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