Photosynthesis
This gas is taken in by plants from the atmosphere to begin the process of photosynthesis.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Animal cells use this process to "break down" food for energy.
What is Cellular Respiration?
This process involves burning materials like wood or fossil fuels, releasing carbon quickly.
What is Combustion?
This term describes a place that absorbs and stores more carbon than it releases.
What is a Sink?
These three fuels (Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas) are formed from ancient remains and release CO2 when burned.
What are Fossil Fuels?
This green organelle in plant cells acts like a "solar panel" to capture energy for making food.
What is the Chloroplast?
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse" of the cell, where respiration occurs.
What is the Mitochondria?
"Carbon fixation" is when carbon moves from the atmosphere (a gas) into this type of matter.
What is organic matter/living things/solids?
This term describes a process or place that adds carbon to the atmosphere.
What is a Source?
This term describes the clearing of wide areas of trees, which reduces the number of organisms that can remove CO2 from the air.
What is Deforestation?
Photosynthesis converts light energy into chemical potential energy stored in this molecule...
What is Glucose?
This is the specific gas released back into the air when you exhale.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
When plants take CO2 and turn it into solid sugar, they are "fixing" carbon. This process is the primary way carbon fixation happens.
What is Photosynthesis?
This is the largest carbon sink on Earth, absorbing about 25% of human-caused CO2.
What is the Ocean?
Carbon dioxide is known as this type of gas because it traps heat in the atmosphere.
What is a Greenhouse Gas?
This gas is released as a byproduct or "waste" during photosynthesis.
What is Oxygen?
While photosynthesis stores energy, cellular respiration does this with energy.
What is releases energy?
Combustion requires three essential things in order to occur. Fuel, heat, and this specific gas make up what is called the "Fire Triangle". Name that gas.
What is Oxygen?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are "sinks" for millions of years until humans do this to them.
What is burn/extract them?
This is the name for the overall increase in Earth's average temperature due to the enhanced greenhouse effect.
What is Global Warming/Climate Change?
During photosynthesis, plants use carbon dioxide and water to create sugar; this is the specific "chemical recipe" or formula for glucose.
What is C6H1206?
These are the two "reactants" (ingredients) needed for cellular respiration to occur.
What are Glucose and Oxygen?
This process is the opposite of combustion; it involves the slow, natural breakdown of dead organisms.
What is Decomposition?
Volcanic eruptions and forest fires are examples of this (Sink or Source).
What is a Source?
When the ocean absorbs too much CO2, the water becomes more of this, which can harm coral reefs and shellfish.
What is Acidic/Ocean Acidification?