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10/03 – Biochemical Cycles
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The Water Cycle
Water Cycle coloring sheet – add to study guide
Discussion – Are you drinking the same water as …
Water cycle animation
Find out more about the water cycle
Play a water cycle game
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The Water Cycle
Labs and Activities
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The Water Cycle
Labs and Activities
Discussion – Labs and Activities
Where is our water?
Why care about water video
Bill Nye – Water Cycle video
Quiz - Water
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The Carbon Cycle
Carbon Cycle coloring sheet – add to study guide
What is the Carbon cycle?
Cycles in our world
The Carbon cycle game
Carbon cycle and Greenhouse gas
Carbon cycle video
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The Nitrogen Cycle
Nitrogen cycle coloring sheet – add to study guide
Nitrogen cycle animation
Read about the nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen cycle game
The Phosphorus Cycle
Phosphorus Cycle coloring sheet – add to study guide
Animation of the phosphorus cycle
Phosphorus cycle video
Quiz – Biochemical Cycles
SES1. Students will investigate the composition and formation of Earth systems, including the
Earth’s relationship to the solar system.
d. Describe how the Earth acquired its initial oceans and atmosphere.
e. Identify the transformations and major reservoirs that make up the rock cycle,
hydrologic cycle, carbon cycle, and other important geochemical cycles.
SES6. Students will explain how life on Earth responds to and shapes Earth systems.
a. Relate the nature and distribution of life on Earth, including humans, to the chemistry
and availability of water.
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Label and define
Accumulation
Condensation
Evaporation
Precipitation
Surface Runoff
Subsurface
Runoff
Transpiration
What are three reasons water is important?
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What is an aquifer?
How is water distributed through the biosphere?
What draws water back to the earth?
How much water enters the hydrologic cycle?
How much of the water on earth can we get to and use?
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The Carbon Cycle
How does carbon get in the oceans?
Where is most of the Earth’s carbon located and in what form is it?
How does carbon enter the biotic part of the ecosystem?
How is carbon dioxide returned to the atmosphere?
What is a fossil fuel?
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The Nitrogen Cycle
What percent of the air is nitrogen?
Why is nitrogen essential to life?
How do plants and animals get nitrogen if not from the atmosphere?
What are nitrogen fixing bacteria?
What is a major reservoir for ammonia?
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What is denitrification?
The Phosphorus Cycle
Why is phosphorus an important biological molecule?
What happens to phosphorus that erodes from rock and soil?
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How are phosphates incorporated into the organic molecules in plants and
animals?
What happens to the phosphates when plants and animals die?
What happens to the phosphorous that is carried by runoff to the oceans?
How are phosphates incorporated into the organic molecules in aquatic
plants and animals?
What is different about the phosphorus cycle as compared to the water,
carbon, and nitrogen cycles?
Explain how the different cycles are related.
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