Question
Linda wrote a few steps to describe how carbon circulates between the atmosphere and living organisms. Step 3 is missing.
Step 1: Carbon enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide from respiration and combustion
Step 2: Plants use carbon dioxide to make glucose
Step 3:
Step 4: Animals exhale carbon dioxide
Which of the following best describes step 3?
Dead animals are buried underground and form fossil fuels.
Carbon present in glucose is converted into oxygen by animals.
Carbon present in glucose is transferred into plant-eating animals.
Dead animals decompose and recycle the carbon in the form of carbon dioxide.
Step 1: Carbon enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide from respiration and combustion
Step 2: Plants use carbon dioxide to make glucose
Step 3:
Step 4: Animals exhale carbon dioxide
Which of the following best describes step 3?
Dead animals are buried underground and form fossil fuels.
Carbon present in glucose is converted into oxygen by animals.
Carbon present in glucose is transferred into plant-eating animals.
Dead animals decompose and recycle the carbon in the form of carbon dioxide.
Answers
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The best description for step 3 is: **Carbon present in glucose is transferred into plant-eating animals.**
This step explains the process of how carbon, once incorporated into glucose by plants, moves through the food chain to herbivores that consume those plants.
This step explains the process of how carbon, once incorporated into glucose by plants, moves through the food chain to herbivores that consume those plants.