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Carbon cycle vocab

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do you call the gasses that surround the earth?

a)

Biosphere

b)

air

c)

atmosphere

d)

gasses in the sky

2.

True or False: There was more carbon in the atmosphere BEFORE the industrial revolution.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

What is NOT true about the carbon cycle?

a)

The sun is part of the carbon cycle

b)

There are multiple spheres that intersect to make the carbon cycle

c)

The Biosphere is not part of the carbon cycle

d)

all are true

4.

Check all that apply: What is TRUE about the carbon cycle?

a)

Trees soak up CO2 and let out Oxygen

b)

People are part of the carbon cycle

c)

Carbon molecules can go to the atmosphere through respiration

d)

CO2 can be created by man through burning fossil fuels

5.

Combustion is...

a)

Oceans soaking in CO2

b)

The process of burning something

c)

Another way of saying "the carbon cycle"

d)

petting ducks

6.
When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the                       as carbon dioxide.
a)
Water
b)
Atmosphere
c)
Sun
d)
Air
7.
What does not produce carbon dioxide?
a)
Photosynthesis
b)
Burning Fossil Fuels
c)
Animal respiration
d)
Plants decaying
8.

Check all that apply: What element(s) is present in all living things?

a)

water

b)

carbon

c)

helium

d)

methane

9.

If the plant population decreased the amount of Carbon would____.

a)

Increase

b)

Decrease

10.

Organisms that do not get decomposed are burried and become____.

a)

Nutrients

b)

Air

c)

Water

d)

Fossil fuels