Carbon Cycle

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Across
  1. 3. Plants use energy from this to make food
  2. 4. The gas plants release during photosynthesis
  3. 7. Humans and these organisms eat plants and transfer carbon
  4. 9. Carbon is the building _______ of life
  5. 10. The process where carbon returns to the atmosphere when you breathe
  6. 12. Carbon dioxide is a _______ gas that traps heat
  7. 14. Carbon moves around Earth through the carbon _______
  8. 15. Sinks do this to carbon from the atmosphere
Down
  1. 1. The process plants use to make their own food
  2. 2. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into this
  3. 5. Places that store carbon from the atmosphere
  4. 6. Coal and oil are examples of fossil _______
  5. 8. When plants or animals die, they _______ and carbon goes into the soil
  6. 11. Cool ocean water does this to carbon from the atmosphere
  7. 13. Too much carbon being released leads to global _______