Student Name: ______________________________________________
Class Period: _____
Use the following website to answer the questions related to the carbon
cycle.
www.windows2universe.org/earth/climate/carbon_cycle.html
1. What is a greenhouse gas?
2. Where does carbon dioxide come from? BE SPECIFIC!
A.
B.
C.
D.
Click on “The Carbon Cycle”
3. What is carbon found in?
4. How is carbon pulled from the atmosphere into plants?
5. How does carbon move from plants to animals?
6. How does carbon move from plants and animals into the soil?
7. How does carbon move into the atmosphere?
8. How much carbon is released into the atmosphere through the burning
of fossil fuels?
9. What are the benefits of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide?
10.How is carbon removed from seawater over long time periods?
Click on “Play the Carbon Cycle Game”
Game requirements:
1. You must visit each of the 6 carbon reservoirs. THE ORDER IN
WHICH YOU VISIT THE RESEVOIRS DOES NOT MATTER!
2. Answer the questions related to each reservoir.
3. Answer the quiz questions. ORDER IN WHICH YOU ANSWER
THE QUESTIONS DOES NOT MATTER!
Atmosphere
1. How much of the atmosphere is made of carbon dioxide?
2. How much has the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
increased? Why has it increased?
3. What is the effect of more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Surface Ocean
1. How did carbon dioxide get into the surface ocean?
A.
B.
C.
2. How much carbon dioxide does the surface ocean take in?
3. Does cold or warm water dissolve carbon dioxide faster?
Deep Ocean
1. Where does the carbon dioxide found in the deep ocean come from?
2. How much carbon dioxide does it hold?
Marine Life
1. What do phytoplankton use carbon for?
2. What organisms are harmed by high levels of carbon?
Land Plants
1. What happens to carbon dioxide here?
2. What is the name of the process involved?
Soils
1. What must happen for carbon to become part of the soil?
2. What is soil made of?
A.
B.
C.
D.
3. How much carbon does soil store?
Quiz Questions (NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER!)
True or False The ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
than from the land.
True or False Carbon can’t get from the deep ocean to soils on the land.
There is a different type of carbon on land.
True or False Phytoplankton are tiny plants and algae that float in the ocean
and take in carbon dioxide as they grow.
True or False Plants take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere during
photosynthesis.
Soils store about ________________ of Earth’s total carbon.
How much has the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased
over the last 150 years?
When carbon enters the deep ocean, how long does it stay there?