Carbon
Cycle
Enrico
Abanales
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What is Carbon
(TEEIC 2016, Goldenberg Suzzane 2016)
• Carbon is an element
that cannot be broken
down into a simpler
substance
• Carbon compounds
exist in living things
and non-living things
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Living things
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Non-living things
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What is Carbon
(TEEIC 2016, Goldenberg Suzzane 2016)
• Carbon is an element
that cannot be broken
down into a simpler
substance
• Carbon compounds exist
in living things and nonliving things
• Carbon is often referred
to as the “building block
of life”
• Living things cannot make
their own carbon
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How is carbon incorporated into living things?
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Sandeen Julie, 2016
• Plants/producers
capture Carbon
Dioxide
• Plants/producers
will convert
Carbon Dioxide
into glucose
• Animals will eat
plants/producers
• Animals will get
carbon from the
plants/producers
they ate
What is the Carbon Cycle
(Bolin Bert, 2016)
• The carbon cycle
is one of the
biogeochemical
cycles
• Circulation and
transformation of
carbon
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How does the Carbon Cycle work?
Formation of Fossil
Fuels
(Sandeen Julie, 2016)
• Millions of years ago,
dead plants and
animals could not
decompose
• Dead plants and
animals are organic
matter containing cells
full of carboncontaining organic
compounds
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Formation of Fossil Fuels (Sandeen Julie, 2016)
• When organic matter is
under pressure for
millions of years, it
forms fossil fuels
• Examples of Fossil Fuels
• Coal
• Oil
• Natural gas
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• Julie Sandeen, M.S. “The Carbon Cycle”. cK-12. 22 August 2016. 6 September 2016
<http://www.ck12.org/life-science/Carbon-Cycle-in-Life-Science/lesson/Carbon-CycleBasic/?referrer=featured_content>
• Goldenberg, S. “What is Carbon”. theguardian. 26 May 2011. 6 September 2016
<http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/feb/03/carbon>
• Bolin, B. “Carbon Cycle”. 1981. 7 September 2016 <http://dilu.bol.ucla.edu/home.html>
• The Earth Project. “Are Fossil Fuels Really Bad for the Environment”. The Earth Project. 7
September 2016 <http://theearthproject.com/fossil-fuels-bad-environment/>
• Brock, W. H. “Fossil Free Stanford’s Real Conflict of Interest”. The Stanford Review. 19 February
2015. 7 September 2016 <http://stanfordreview.org/article/fossil-free-stanfords-real-conflict-ofinterest/>