Carbon Cycle (with tmw's test)

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Know the process of the Carbon Cycle

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Are ecosystems open/closed systems?

Open system; carbon cycles around environment

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List three organisms that transfer carbon dioxide to the atmosphere

animals, bacteria, fungi

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What human activity contribute to carbon (the most) in the atmosphere?

Burning of fossil fuels

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How is carbon recycled from dead organisms?

By saprotrophs

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2 examples of saprotrophs

fungi and bacteria

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Pool/sink

where carbon is stored (atmosphere, fossil fuels, organisms)

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How are pools/sinks typically represneted?

By boxes

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flux

how carbon is transferred from one pool/sink to another

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How are fluxes typically represented?

by arrows

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Give some examples of pools/sinks

Atmosphere and fossil fuels

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Give some examples of fluxes

egestion, ingestion, cellular respiration, decomposition, photosynthesis, and combustion

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What natural process removes the most carbon from the atmosphere?

photosynthesis

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What natural process adds the most carbon from the atmosphere?

combustion

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