Carbon Cycle Basics
Biomes
Vocabulary
Human Impact
Decomposers and Photosynthesis
100
This is the gas we breathe out.
Carbon Dioxide
100
This is an example of one cold biome!
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a.Tundra
b.Grasslands
c.Rainforest
a. Tundra
100
This is another word for respiration...
Breathing
100
This is one human activity that adds carbon to the air.
Driving cars, breathing, or burning fossil fuels.
100
Decomposers do this to dead animals and plants.
They absorb or eat the nutrients and put it back into the soil.
200
True or False?
The ocean stores large amounts of carbon.
True
200
One example of biodiversity in the rainforest is...
The many different type of animals, plants, or weather.
200
This is the main function of photosynthesis...
Plants creating food from the sun, water, and Carbon.
200
These are examples of fossil fuels.
Coal, oil, or gasoline
200
This is what carbon does when something dies.
The carbon goes into the soil and back into the atmosphere.
300
This is the job that plants do in the carbon cycle.
Process carbon and turn it into oxygen.
300
One abiotic factor in the desert biome may be...
The sand, sun, rocks, or etc.
300
This is the air around Earth.
The atmosphere
300
This is what happens when humans burn fossil fuels.
It releases ______ into the atmosphere.
It releases CO2/Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere.
300
Plants take in carbon dioxide and release _______ into the atmosphere.
Oxygen
400
This is the name given to Earth's temperature rising.
Global warming
400
What is another word for biome?
Earth, the environment, or a community?
Earth
400
This level of organization breaks down dead plants and animals
Decomposers
400
True or False?
Deforestation (cutting down trees) contributes positively to Global Warming.
False
400
This is the role of photosynthesis in plants.
It creates food for the plants.
500
Name a source or where carbon is stored in the environment.
The ocean, cars, or humans.
500
what type of biome has freshwater and saltwater in it?
Aquatic or Terrestrial?
Aquatic
500
This is an example of a biotic factor.
animals, plants, fungi, or bacteria
500
How can people help reduce carbon in the air.
Plant more trees and use less fossil fuels.
500
True or False?
Humans can perform photosynthesis.
False!