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Carbon Cycle

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16 questions
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Name two ways that carbon (usually in the form of CO2) enters the atmosphere.

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Process D on the diagrm uses CO2 from the atmosphere. Identify the process labeled D.

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What oranisms carry out the process labeled D?

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Wastes and dead organisms must be broken down in order for their components to be used again. What organisms carry out decomposition?

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What would happen if decomposition did not occur?

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Not all dead organisms are acted on by decomposers. Instead of being immediately recycled, the carbon from some organisms is kept in a type of long-term storage or carbon sink. Click on 3 materials that are carbon sinks.

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Cellular respiration, decomposition, combustion, and photosynthesis are processes that drive which of the following cycles?

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Leaves fall from trees in autumn. The carbon in these leaves is returned to the atmosphere through which of the following processes?

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What process is happening here? The factory is burning fossil fuels releasing carbon into the atmosphere.

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What process is happening here? The lynx is breathing out carbon dioxide?

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What process is happening here? The tree is removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. During this process the tree makes sugar.

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What gas is made during photosynthesis? This gas is breathed in by the lynx.

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Carbon cycles through all of the following except

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Burning fossil fuels is known as

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Which of the following are mainly cycled through the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?

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The diagram shows part of the carbon cycle. Which of the processes shown in the diagram is responsible for cycling carbon from the atmosphere to the biosphere (living things)