Carbon Cycle/Combustion Summative
  • 1. Which Formula best describes Combustion?
A) Fuel+Oxygen =Catalyst +CO2+Water Vapor
B) Light+Heat+Fuel= Water Vapor+CO2+Catalyst
C) Fuel+Oxygen= Light+Heat+Carbon Dioxide+ Water Vapor
D) Fuel+Oxygen = Light+Heat
E) None of the answers listed
  • 2. Which of the following leads to a major imbalance in the carbon cycle?
A) The combustion of fossil fuels
B) Carbon Sinks
C) The discovery of fossil fuels
D) Tim Tebow
E) Allowing trees to grow to maturity
  • 3. Which of the following statements is NOT true about this picture?
A) It is a carbon sink
B) It shows atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
C) It is a reason that the carbon cycle is out of balance.
D) It shows a way to store carbon
E) None of the answers listed
  • 4. Which answer BEST describes where can you find Carbon?
A) Inside all living things
B) Only in the Earth's Atmosphere
C) In the water molecules within our oceans.
D) Usually just in trees
E) Only stored in fossil fuels
  • 5. Is this Formula for Combustion True or False: Natural Gas (Methane) Combustion CH4 + 2 O2 = 4 CO2 + 2 H20
A) True
B) False
  • 6. How is the carbon cycle similar to the water cycle?
A) Both involve the transfer of materials exclusively between plants and animals
B) Both cycles stop working below freezing
C) That cycle's crazy. Terrible. Knucklehead.
D) Both involve the transfer of materials between animals, plants and the earth
E) Both involve liquid substances falling out out of the atmosphere to the Earth.
  • 7. Challenge Question: Looking at the following formulas for combustion of two different materials, which statement is NOT true? Here are the formulas: Wood Combustion: C6H12O6 + O2 = 6CO2 +6H2O Propane Gas Combustion (Ethane) C3H8 + 5O2 = 3 CO2 + 4 H20
A) Propane Propane Gas Combustion (Ethane) C3H8 + 5O2 = 3 CO2 creates fewer units of CO2 per unit of fuel combusted than paraffin Paraffin: (used in modern candles) C25H52 + 38 O2 = 25 CO2 + 26 H2O
B) Because propane comes from carbon that has been stored for millions of years, it is generally considered to be a fuel that is better at balancing the carbon cycle.
C) Each fuel produces water vapor.
D) Because the trees that wood comes from are a more active part of the carbon cycle, carbon dioxide created from the combustion of wood would be less likely to contribute to long term climate change.
E) Wood produces twice as much CO2 than propane per unit burned.
  • 8. What is a carbon sink?
A) Something that adds carbon to the atmosphere.
B) Something that adds carbon to the Earth's crust
C) Something that removes carbon from the Earth's atmosphere
D) Something that removes carbon from the Earth's crust.
E) None of the answers listed.
  • 9. Use the picture and choose the statement that is MOST true:
A) While coal has the greatest amount of carbon in its formula, wood produces more CO2 through combustion
B) Coal and oil produce the same amount of water vapor through combustion
C) Propane and methane produce the same amount of C02 through combustion.
D) Propane produces less Carbon Dioxide than Natural Gas/Methane when combusted
E) Paraffin has the second greatest amount of Carbon in its formula
  • 10. Which of these world events lead to the biggest imbalance in the carbon cycle?
A) The Industrial Revolution
B) The Civil War
C) Super Bowl XLVI
D) The Gulf War
E) The American Revolution
  • 11. How does carbon become locked inside the Earth?
A) Humans pump large amounts of C02 into large underground storage tanks called carbon sinks
B) The carbon rich bodies of animals and plants put carbon back into the Earth after they die and become buried.
C) All rocks absorb C02 over time
D) None of the answers listed.
E) Tree roots put carbon dioxide back into the soil
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