WorksheetsCarbon Cycle
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 36mins
Producer
Organisms that use sunlight energy to make food through Photosynthesis
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Consumer
Organisms that eat other organisms such as plants and animals to obtain energy
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Decomposer
Organisms that gets energy by braking down the remains of other organisms
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BIOMASS
ORGANIC MATTER FROM PLANTS AND FROM ANIMAL WASTE
THAT IS USED AS FUEL AND CAN BE BURNED TO RELEASE ENERGY.
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ORGANIC MATTER
MADE UP OF LIVING, DEAD, AND DECOMPOSING PLANTS AND ANIMALS.
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FOSSIL FUELS
A NONRENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCE FORMED FROM DECOMPOSING ORGANISMS THAT LIVED MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO. THEY ARE USED DURING COMBUSTION, RELEASING CO2 IN THE AIR.
EX). OIL, COAL, NATURAL GAS
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GREENHOUSE EFFECT
WHEN GASES SUCH AS CO2 GET TRAPPED IN THE
ATMOSPHERE, CAUSING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE PLANET TO RISE.
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GLOBAL WARMING
A GRADUAL INCREASE IN THE OVERALL TEMP. OF
EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE DUE TO THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT CAUSED BY
INCREASED LEVELS OF CO2
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Carbon Cycle
•The continuous cycling of carbon from the nonliving (abiotic) environment into living things (biotic) and then back again.
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WHAT IS A
BIOTIC FACTOR
•All of the
LIVING
things in an
environment.
Ex).
•PLANTS
•ANIMALS
•FUNGUS
•BACTERIA
•PROTISTS
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WHAT IS AN
ABIOTIC
FACTOR?
•All of the
NONLIVING
things in an
environment.
Ex).
•SOIL
•AIR
•SUN
•WATER
•ROCKS
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WHERE IS CARBON FOUND?
•In the atmosphere as CARBON DIOXIDE GAS
•Dissolved in WATER
•Locked up ROCKS
•SOIL
•FOSSIL FUELS
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WHAT ARE 4 PROCESSES IN THE CARBON CYCLE?
•PHOTOSYNTHESIS
•CELLULAR RESPIRATION
•COMBUSTION
•DECOMPOSITION
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