04.17.25 Do Now - The Carbon Cycle

Where does the SKY get its carbon from?

• The sun

• Animals breathing

• Water

• The sun

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Where do ANIMALS get their carbon from?

• The sun

• Other animals breathing

• The dirt

• Their food

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Label the following Carbon cycle.

a

b

c

d

sunlight

fossil fuels

photosynthesis

animals breathing (respiration)

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Over ________________ of years, once-living matter that remains in the ground can transform into fossil fuels.

• millions

• hundreds

• thousands

• a few handful

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The step of the carbon cycle that is in red is called...

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

• Respiration

• Combustion

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The step of the carbon cycle that is in red is called...

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

• Respiration

• Combustion

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Where can you find carbon?

• only in the EArth's atmosphere

• inside all water molecules

• inside the sun

• inside every living thing on Earth

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A carbon "sink" is best described as:

• a reservoir that readily releases carbon to another reservoir
• a carbon reservoir that stores more carbon that it is releasing
• something that causes carbon to leak out to the atmosphere
• a carbon reservoir that is releasing more carbon than it is taking in

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Burning fossil fuels has raised the concentration of ___________ in the atmosphere.

• oxygen

• rain

• carbon

• nitrogen

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