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Photosynthesis
Cellular Respiration
The Carbon Cycle
The Carbon Cycle
Vocab
100

What organisms perform photosynthesis?

What are plants?

100
Respiration uses this.
What is oxygen?
100

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

What is carbon dioxide?

100

What is the process of burning down large areas of forest?

What is deforestation?

100
The exchange of carbon between the environment and living things is known as this.
What is the carbon cycle?
200
During photosynthesis plants use carbon dioxide to make this.
What is sugar?
200
Carbon returns to the environment when these molecules are broken down.
What are sugar molecules?
200

True or false- Photosynthesis is part of the carbon cycle.

What is true?

200

What is the process of living things breaking down dead matter?

What is decomposition?

200
The basis of the carbon cycle when plants capture energy from the sun and change it into food.
What is photosynthesis?
300
Plants get the carbon dioxide from this.
What is air?
300
These are the two byproducts of respiration.
What are carbon dioxide and water?
300

What is a natural reservoir that stores carbon for a long period of time?

What is a carbon sink?

300

True or false- A bacteria is an example of a decomposer.

What is true?

300
The process of burning a substance.
What is combustion?
400
This is the main pigment used in photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
400

What organisms perform cellular respiration?

What is plants and animals?

400
These are the two reactants of combustion.
What are fuel and oxygen?
400

What is one example of a fossil fuel?

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What is coal?

What is oil?

What is natural gas?

400
The breakdown of substances into simpler molecules.
What is decomposition?
500
The food that plants make through photosynthesis is in the form of this.
What is glucose?
500

Where does cellular respiration occur?

What is the mitochondria?

500

These are the two main substances burned in combustion.

What are wood and fossil fuels?

500

What are the two pathways within the carbon cycle?

What is water-based and land-based pathways?

500

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

What is cellular respiration?