Carbon Cycle - Please answer the following using the words in the word bank
(Word bank words can be used either once, or not at all).
Word Bank:
soil erosion, natural gas, oxygen, burning of fossil fuels, coal, coal, natural gas, respiration, greenhouse effect, oil, ocean, climate change, photosynthesis, glucose, oil, carbon dioxide, fermentation oil, ozone, methane, carbon monoxide, natural gas, decayed, coal
Plants and other photoautotrophs use CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the process of ______ to make ______ and oxygen. Both plants and animals use oxygen in the biological process of ______ and make more CO2. The _____ is the main regulator of CO2 in the atmosphere, because it covers most of the Earth and CO2 dissolves easily in it. Millions of years ago, huge deposits of carbon were stored, which were formed from dead plants and other ______ organisms. Today these deposits are burned as fossil fuels, which include ______, ______, and ______. More CO2 is released in the atmosphere today than in the past because of the _____. But _____ is a greenhouse gas, as is water, and methane, and too much CO2 in the atmosphere may be responsible for human accelerated ______.