Carbon Cycle

Question 1

What’s the constant cycling of carbon called?

Answer 1

The carbon cycle

Question 2

What removes carbon dioxide from the environment?

Answer 2

Green plants and algae for photosynthesis

Question 3

What is the carbon used to make in green plants and algae?

Answer 3

Carbohydrates, fats, proteins- which make up the body of plants and algae

Question 4

How does some of the carbon in green plants, algae and animals become released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide?

Answer 4

Respiration

Question 5

How does the carbon inside green plants and algae become part of the fats and proteins that make up an animals’ body?

Answer 5

Animals eat the plants (then animals eat those animals etc)

Question 6

What happens when plants, algae and animals die?

Answer 6

Some animals and microorganisms feed on their bodies

Question 7

How does carbon from the microorganisms get into the atmosphere as CO2?

Answer 7

Respiration

Question 8

What does the combustion of wood and fossil fuels release into the atmosphere?

Answer 8

Carbon dioxide

Question 9

By the time microorganisms and detritus feeders have broken down waste products and dead bodies of organisms in ecosystems and cycled the materials as plant nutrients…

Answer 9

All the energy originally absorbed by green plants and algae has been transferred