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Plants and the carbon cycle — Homework
Explain each carbon cycle scenario using photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, or burning.
- 1.How does a plant remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
- 2.Name two ways carbon stored in a plant returns to the atmosphere.
- 3.What term describes a place, like a forest, that stores more carbon than it releases?
- 4.Trace one carbon atom's journey from the atmosphere, into a plant, and back to the atmosphere, naming each step.
- 5.Why does burning a large area of forest release carbon dioxide quickly, compared to a forest that is left standing?
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