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A fellow student is studying the differences between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. The student asks you to explain how cellular respiration uniquely contributes to the carbon cycle. In 3–5 sentences, describe the different ways that both photosynthesis and cellular respiration contribute to the carbon cycle.
short and in a way that a 6th grader will understand no points

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Plants do photosynthesis to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into sugar and oxygen using sunlight. Cellular respiration is how animals, plants, and microbes break down that sugar for energy and release carbon dioxide back into the air. Respiration uniquely returns carbon from living things to the atmosphere, including when organisms breathe, eat, or decompose. Together, photosynthesis stores carbon in living things and respiration puts it back into the air, keeping the carbon cycle moving.