Carbon Cycle
Across
- 2. all of them contain atoms of carbon
- 5. keeps the Earth warm and insulates it from the deep cold of space
- 7. oil, coal, and natural gas
- 8. taken in by plants and used to build molecules of glucose
- 11. take in carbon dioxide and use it during photosynthesis
- 12. too much heat being trapped by the atmosphere by the greenhouse effect
- 15. carried out by autotrophs and heterotrophs to break down glucose into carbon dioxide and water
- 17. present in the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide
Down
- 1. industrial society depends on energy that comes from burning these
- 3. formed by marine organisms by combining carbon, calcium, and oxygen
- 4. removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
- 6. responsible for a dramatic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide
- 9. a large storage area for carbon
- 10. key element of all organic compounds
- 13. returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere
- 14. concentration in the atmosphere has dramatically increased over the last 150 years
- 16. supply of carbon needed to build new organic compounds