CARBON CYCLE
And how it has been effected
WHERE CAN CARBON BE
LOCATED?
• Carbon is a non-metallic element that is the basis for all living things.
• Carbon is found in all kinds of different compounds. The one you may be
most comfortable with is CO2 or Carbon Dioxide.
• On earth the most common places to find carbon is in the ocean,
atmosphere, below ground, and in living things.
LIVING THINGS
• Animals take in carbon as the
bodies of primary producers and
transfer that carbon into their
own bodies, bones, or shells. As
animals use energy to grow and
reproduce
ATMOSPHERE
• Carbon exists in the atmosphere
mostly as carbon dioxide—a gas.
Carbon dioxide is essential for life
on Earth because producers, like
plants and algae, use it for
photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide is
also one of the gases in the
atmosphere that trap heat in our
atmosphere, which is essential to
life on Earth.
UNDERGROUND
•
Fossil Fuels were formed very
long ago from plant or animal
remains that were buried,
compressed, and transformed
into oil, coal, or natural gas.
The carbon is said to be "fixed"
in place and is essentially
locked out of the natural
carbon cycle
• Carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere dissolves in the
surface waters of the ocean.
• Some of the carbon dioxide stays
as dissolved gas, but much of it
gets turned into other things.
Photosynthesis by tiny marine
plants (phytoplankton) in the sunlit
surface waters turns the carbon
into organic matter. Many
organisms use carbon to make
calcium carbonate, a building
material of shells and skeletons.
Other chemical processes create
calcium carbonate in the water.
OCEAN
CARBON CYCLE
• The carbon cycle is the natural movement and recycling of
carbon on Earth, kind of like the water cycle. Similar to the
water cycle, Carbon moves through some areas quickly
while settling in other areas for long periods of time.
• You are going to be broken up into four different areas.
Take turns rolling the carbon dice to determine your
location. If you roll the area that you are already in, you will
return to the back of the line.
• Record every area your dice rolls on the paper you are
given. You will need this information later.