Trey wrote a few steps to describe how carbon circulates between the atmosphere and living organisms. Step 1. Carbon enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide from respiration and the burning of fossil fuels.
Step 2. Plants absorb carbon dioxide in the air and use it to make their own food using photosynthesis.
Step 3. Plant-eating animals consume the carbon stored in plants.

If step 2 is removed, which statement best describes the effects of this missing step on the carbon cycle?

O Less carbon is stored in the ground for long-term storage.
O There is a decrease in the amount of carbon stored in the air.
O More carbon is stored in plants instead of the air.
O Animals consume foods without stored carbon.​

Acommon technique in analysis of scientific data is normalization. the purpose of normalizing data is to eliminate irrelevant constants that can obscure the salient features of the data. the goal of this experiment is to test the hypothesis that the flux of light decreases as the square of the distance from the source. in this case, the absolute value of the voltage measured by the photometer is irrelevant; only the relative value conveys useful information. suppose that in part 2.2.2 of the experiment, students obtain a signal value of 162 mv at a distance of 4 cm and a value of 86 mv at a distance of 5.7 cm. normalize the students' data to the value obtained at 4 cm. (divide the signal value by 162.) then calculate the theoretically expected (normalized) value at 5.7 cm.