Carbon Cycle
This is what we do when we eat and breathe. CO2 is released into the atmosphere as waste from metabolism.
Respiration
Clouds are an example of______
What is condensation.
This phase of matter has definite shape and volume.
solid
Photosynthesis adds or subtracts Carbon from the Atmosphere.
Subtracts
This is the date of your Biology Final
What is December 18, 2025
Plants capture CO2 from the atmosphere and use it to make sugar.
Photosynthesis
water falls to Earth as a liquid (usually rain, sleet or snow)
What is precipitation?
This state of matter has a definite volume, but no definite shape
liquid
These 2 processes in the Carbon Cycle add CO2 to the atmosphere.
What are Respiration and Combustion?
What percentage of Earth's water is found in the ocean?
What is 97%
This is the part of the carbon cycle when you eat that cheeseburger. (One organism eats another for carbon.)
Consumption
This adds the energy that makes the water cycle work.
What is the sun?
This phase of matter doesn't have a definite shape or definite volume.
Gas
This part of the Carbon Cycle adds carbon to the soil.
What is decomposition?
An underground layer of permeable rock that can hold water is called an _______________. We have one below us!
What is an aquifer?
When worms, bugs, and bacteria break down canbon from dead organisms, recycling it in the soil.
Decomposition
Water rises back into the atmosphere as water vapor from plants
Transpiration
The process of when a gas loses energy and changes into a liquid.
condensation
This part of the Water Cycle adds water to the oceans if it doesn't infiltrate into the soil.
What is runoff?
This is Mr. Polk's first name.
What is Sam?
CO2 released into atmosphere from burning.
Combustion
Some water seeps underground from the surface of the Earth
What is Infiltration?
What does liquid water need to become a gas?
What is heat or energy?
Add intense heat, pressure, and time to once-living organisms and you get these.
Fossil Fuels
6CO2 + 6H2O -------> C6H12O6 + 6 O2
This is the chemical equation for which part of the Carbon Cycle?
What is Photosynthesis?