Carbon Cycle

Question 1

How does carbon enter the atmosphere?

Answer 1

Carbon dioxide from respiration and combustion

Question 2

How is carbon dioxide absorbed?

Answer 2

The producers of carbon dioxide (cows/trees) to make carbohydrates and photosynthesis

Question 3

How do animals effect respiration?

Answer 3

They feed on plants, passing carbon along the food chain. Carbon they breath in is exhaled as carbon dioxide

Question 4

How do dead animals release their carbon out into the atmosphere?

Answer 4

The dead organisms are eaten by decomposers and the carbon is released back I tot the atmosphere as Carbon dioxide.

Question 5

How are fossils make in decomposition?

Answer 5

Sometimes, decomposition is blocked. In the future the plant or animal will become a fossil for combustion

Question 6

Where is carbon found?

Answer 6

Dead organisms , atmosphere, animals, plants, Fossil fuels, ocean

Question 7

1) Trees > clouds

2) Clouds> trees

Answer 7

1) Respiration

2) Photosynthesis

Question 8

1) Trees>Waste

2) Aquatic wildlife>Waste

Answer 8

1) Excrete

2) Excretion

Question 9

1) Trees>Aquatic wildlife

2) Wildlife>Clouds

Answer 9

1) Consumed

2) Respire

Question 10

1) Waste>Coal/oil/natural gases

2) Coal/oil/natural gases>clouds

Answer 10

1) Fossilised

2) Combustion

Question 11

1) Clouds>Ocean

2) Ocean> Water

Answer 11

1) Dissolve

2) Release