Question

What best describes the association between the carbon cycle, plants, and animals?
Plants fix carbon and release oxygen, and animals release carbon and use oxygen.
Animals fix carbon and release oxygen, and plants release carbon and use oxygen.
Animals fix carbon through respiration, and plants fix carbon through photosynthesis.
Plants decompose fixing carbon, and animals decompose releasing carbon.

Answer 1

Plants fix carbon and release oxygen, and animals release carbon and use oxygen.

Explanation: Through photosynthesis, plants take in CO2 and convert it to organic carbon while producing O2. Animals respire, using O2 and releasing CO2 back into the atmosphere.