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This is an Internet investigation about the Most Abundant Elements found in all living things. Please use
the internet to answer most of these questions. Also please be aware that there are some Critical
Thinking questions that will take interpretation of your researched answer and then giving a response
BASED ON YOUR own conclusions.
1. What is Carbon’s role in living organisms?
2. What is Oxygen’s role in living organisms?
3. What is Nitrogen’s role in living organisms?
4. What is Hydrogen’s role in living organisms?
5. What is Phosphorus’s role in living organisms?
6. What is Calcium’s role in living organisms?
7. What is Sulfur’s role in living organisms?
8. What are some other elements that are found in trace amounts?
Critical Thinking Section 9.
Based on the last assignment, which element has the highest percentage within living
organisms?
10. Which element do you think is the most significant for living things?
11. Why do you think the element you selected is more important than the others?
12. After your 1st choice, which element do you think is the next important?
13. Give evidence from the research to support your decision on why this element is #2 in your
opinion.