Carbon Cycle

Photosynthesis

100

Animals get the carbon and energy they need by eating this.

What are plants?

200

During photosynthesis plants use carbon dioxide to make this.

What is glucose?

300

Plants get the carbon dioxide from this.

What is air/atmosphere?

400

This is the main pigment used in photosynthesis.

What is chlorophyll?

500

The waste products that plants make through photosynthesis is in the form of this.

What is oxygen gas?

Cellular Respiration

100

Respiration uses this gas obtained from the environment.

What is oxygen?

200

Carbon returns to the environment when these molecules are broken down.

What are glucose molecules?

300

These are the two byproducts (waste products) of respiration.

What are carbon dioxide and water?

400

Respiration uses food and oxygen to create this.

What is chemical energy? / What is ATP?

500

Cellular respiration occurs primarily inside this part of the cell...

What is the mitochondria? 

Combustion

100

When humans burn fossil fuels carbon enters the atmosphere in this form.

What is carbon dioxide?

200

These are the two main substances burned in combustion.

What are wood and fossil fuels?

300

The chemical reaction gives off this.

What is heat?

400

These are the two reactants of combustion.

What are fuel and oxygen?

500

These are some additional chemicals that are formed during the combustion reactions.

What are CO (carbon monoxide), NO (nitric oxide), NO2 (nitrogen dioxide), SO2 (sulfur dioxide), soot, and ash?

Decomposition

100

These two organisms are the main things that decompose organic matter.

What are fungi and bacteria?

200

Decomposing organisms are breaking down dead things to get energy through this process. 

What is cellular respiration?

300

True or False: Decomposition removes carbon dioxide from the atmopshere.

What is false?

400

When fungi and bacteria break down organic matter these two substances are returned to the environment.

What are carbon dioxide and water?

500

Decomposing organisms are a ________ of carbon in the atmosphere. 

What is a source?

Vocab

100

The movement of carbon between the environment and living things is known as this.

What is the carbon cycle?

200

In this process, plants/ other autotrophs capture energy from the sun and change it into food.

What is photosynthesis?

300

Combustion is another word for...

What is burning?

400

The breakdown of substances into simpler molecules.

What is decomposition?

500

Exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between living cells and their environment is this.

What is respiration?