Carbon Cycle

Question 1

What is the Carbon Cycle?

Answer 1

The Carbon Cycle shows how carbon atoms are passed from one organism to another and to their environment as they live, breathe,eat, die and decay

Question 2

What are the five (5) processes of the Carbon Cycle?

Answer 2

Photosynthesis, Respiration, Decomposition, Fossilization, Combustion

Question 3

What is Photosynthesis?

Answer 3

Carbon Dioxide is removed from the air green plants where it is used to make carbohydrates, proteins and fats

Question 4

What is Respiration?

Answer 4

When plants and animals respire, carbon dioxide is returned to the atmosphere

Question 5

What is Decomposition?

Answer 5

When plants and animals die, their bodies are broken down by decomposers, when decomposers break down these organisms, they release carbon dioxide back into the air

Question 6

What is Fossilization?

Answer 6

These are formed from decaying organisms

Question 7

What is Combustion?

Answer 7

When anything is burnt (both biotic or abiotic) carbon dioxide is released into to the atmosphere

Question 8

What is Global Warming?

Answer 8

a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, CFCs, and other pollutants.

Question 9

What is the Green House effect?

Answer 9

the trapping of the sun’s warmth in a planet’s lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet’s surface.

Question 10

Examples of Green House gasses:

Answer 10

Carbon Dioxide
Nitrous Oxide
Methane
Water Vapor

Question 11

Effects of Global Warming

Answer 11

Increased Wildfires
Hotter Temperature
Melting of ice caps