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WorksheetsCarbon Cycle Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
All of the carbon in existence on Earth is continually recycled in the carbon cycle
True
False
How do humans obtain their carbon?
From absorbing sunlight
From inhaling carbon
From eating plants and animals
From cow farts
How does carbon move from the biosphere (all living things) into the atmosphere?
Through cellular respiration
Through photosynthesis
Through burning fossil fuels
Through carbon dissolving in the ocean
What is NOT a carbon molecule
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Glucose (C6H12O6)
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Oxygen (O2)
How does the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect climate?
As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures increase
As carbon dioxide concentration increase, temperatures decrease.
Carbon dioxide concentrations have no affect on climate
As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures become more random.
According to most scientists, activities like fossil fuel burning and deforestation have affected the global carbon cycle.
True
False
In the oceans; algae, plants, and other organisms use carbon from the atmosphere for _____.
Cellular Respiration
Decomposition
Transpiration
Photosynthesis
Which of the following REMOVES carbon from the atmosphere
Burning Fossil Fuels
Cellular Respiration
Photosynthesis
Decomposition
Global warming refers specifically to an increase in...
The number of storms on Earth
Precipitation from Earth's atmosphere
Temperatures at the equator
Earth's average surface temperature
How might burning fossil fuels be creating global warming?
Because fossil fuels will be all used up in a few decades
Because burning fossil fuels in a very dangerous process
Because burning fossil fuels adds CO2 to the atmosphere faster than it can be removed.
