Vocab
The process in which carbon is exchanged between living organisms and the environment.
What is the carbon cycle?
Plants.
Respiration uses this.
Oxygen.
When humans burn fossil fuels, ___ ____ enters the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide.
These are the organisms that mainly decompose organic matter.
Bacteria and fungi.
The process in which plants use energy from the sun and convert it into food.
What is photosynthesis?
During photosynthesis plants use carbon to produce this.
Sugar.
Carbon is returned to the atmosphere when these molecules are broken down.
Sugar molecules.
These are the two main things that are burned in combustion.
Wood and fossil fuels.
List two scavengers that contribute to the decomposition process. (Animals that eat already dead animals).
Coyotes and vultures.
The process of burning something.
Plants get their carbon dioxide from this.
The atmosphere.
These are the two products of respiration.
Carbon dioxide and water.
Combustion is a chemical reaction and releases this type of energy.
Thermal energy, Heat.
All organisms decay, decompose, in the same exact same way. True or false?
False.
The process of something being broken down, an organism's body is broken down.
What is decomposition?
The pigment that plants have that they use during photosynthesis.
Chlorophyll.
Respiration uses food and oxygen to produce this.
Chemical energy.
These are the two reactants of combustion.
Fuel and oxygen.
When bacteria or fungi break down organic matter these two substances are returned to the atmosphere/environment.
Carbon dioxide and water.
The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide among organisms and their environment.
What is respiration?
The food that plants produce during photosynthesis is referred to as this.
Glucose.
A specific lighting is needed for respiration to happen. True or False?
False.
These are some additional chemicals that are formed during the combustion reactions.
CO (carbon monoxide), NO (nitric oxide), NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), SO2 (sulfur dioxide), soot, and ash.
Typically, there are ____ steps in the decomposition process.
Five.