Photosynthetic organisms are essential for limiting the damage done by global warming because they ____

a. move carbon from the atmosphere to living organisms
b. move carbon from the soil to the atmosphere
c. move carbon from the atmosphere to the soil
d. produce oxygen
e. sequester carbon in geologic sediments


ANSWER: a

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