INTRO to the CARBON CYCLE
Name_______________ Date.________
/18 marks
Check off the items as you observe them ( 4 marks)
CO2 in the atmosphere
Carbon dissolved in seawater
Carbon in green plants
Carbon in marine life
Carbon in land animals
Carbon in coal and nat. gas
Carbon in soil
Carbon in oil
Which products of the carbon cycle: ( 3 marks)
1. Could you see out of the window?
4. Are fluids (liquids or gasses)?
2. Can you never see?
5. Last the longest?
3. Might you see in a quarry?
6. Might affect global warming?
PART 2 – BURN BABY BURN: (3 marks
1. What do living things need in order to grow?
2. Where do plants get their food?
3. Where do animals get their food?
4. Where did the carbon in all of these things come from originally?
What happens to carbon? (Draw a picture of each. 2 marks each=8 marks)
5. It is incorporated into living things and passes along the food chain.
6. Some is breathed out by animals and is returned to the atmosphere.
7.Some is locked up in plants and animals until they die and decompose.
8.Some is locked up for a long time when plants and animals are fossilized and form
rocks like coal and also the widespread calcium carbonate-rich rock, limestone.