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2/2/2021 Carbon Cycle #2

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4 questions
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Question 1
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Open the picture below.

Draw arrows between the items showing how carbon is moving in the system.
Each item should have at least one arrow going to it and leaving it. Many will have more than one arrow.
Label the process: photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and diffusion.

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Question 2
2.

Open the picture below.

Draw arrows between the items showing how carbon is moving in the system.
Each item should have an arrow going to it and leaving it. Many will have more than one arrow.
Label the process: decomposition, combustion, or weathering.

Question 3
3.

What is the only organic thing that takes carbon out of the atmosphere?

Question 4
4.

Put the following steps into order. It describes the process for a carbon atom in an organism that lives in the sea to end up in a plant on land?

  1. Over millions of years the sediment forms rocks
  2. The remains of the organism are covered by sediment
  3. Rocks are broken apart through the chemical weathering process
  4. The organism sinks to the bottom of the ocean
  5. decomposers break down the organism
  6. Carbon is released into the atmosphere
  7. A plant takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis
  8. The ocean organism dies.
  9. The plant stores the carbon as a basic sugar C6H12O6