Carbon cycle/questions
1. How is carbon found in the atmosphere?
Carbon is found in the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned or during respiration of
an animal or plant.
2. How does carbon go from the atmosphere to a food chain?
Carbon goes from the atmosphere to a food chain by when plants take it in for
photosynthesis to make its own food and then an animal comes along and eats the plant
and then that animal gets eaten by another animal. That is how it goes from the
atmosphere to a food chain
3. How is carbon made part of living organisms?
Carbon made part of living organisms when a plant takes it in and then when animal
eats that plant that has taken in the carbon and then the carbon is in the animal.
4. How does carbon travel from one trophic level to another in a food chain?
Carbon travel from one trophic level to another when a plant or animal that has carbon
in it that is eaten by another animal.
5. How is carbon released back into the atmosphere?
Carbon released back into the atmosphere when, 1 fossil fuels that contain carbon are
burned off. 2 is when respiration acres in an animal. 3 is when an animal dies and starts
to decay and the carbon is released into the air.
6. How do these processes occur in or around a farm?
These processes occur in or around a farm when 1, a tractor is running, it is burning
fossil fuels with carbon in them and is released into the atmosphere. 2 is when there is
carbon in a plant like grass and a cow eats the grass and the cow now has the carbon. 3
is when a plant takes in carbon from the atmosphere to create carbohydrates using
photosynthesis.
7. How can the carbon cycle illustrate the balance between order vs. chaos in an
ecosystem?
For order it can be because of the cycle the carbon can take or how it is used. For chaos
it can be because when an animal kills or eats another animal or when it is released into
the air by burning fossil fuels and harming the atmosphere.
Nitrogen cycle/questions
1. How is nitrogen found in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen is found in the atmosphere when denitrifying bacteria creates nitrogen gas
and is released into the atmosphere.
2. How is nitrogen found in the soil?
Nitrogen is found in the soil when a plant takes in the nitrogen and is released into
the soil. Also by a fertilizer input into the ground as well.
3. How does nitrogen go from the atmosphere or the soil into a food chain?
Nitrogen goes from the soil into a food chain when there is nitrogen found in the soil
and a plant takes it up and an animal eats the plant that has the nitrogen.
4. How is nitrogen made part of living organisms?
When a plant takes up nitrogen from the soil or air an animal can come and eat the
plant and then the animal has nitrogen in side of it.
5. How does nitrogen travel from one trophic level to another in a food chain?
A plant has nitrogen in it and then an animal can eat the plant and so the animal has
the nitrogen in it. Then another animal comes along and eats that animal and the
new animal has the nitrogen in it.
6. How is nitrogen released back into the atmosphere and back into the soil?
Denitrifying bacteria releases nitrogen gas into the air. Then a plant can take in that
nitrogen and put it in the soil.
7. How do these processes occur in or around a farm?
1 is a plant like grass can take in the nitrogen and can put it into the soil or a cow
comes along and eats the grass. 2 is denitrifying bacteria can release the nitrogen
into the air as well.
8. How can nitrogen cycle illustrate the balance between order vs. chaos in an
ecosystem?
For order it could be for the cycle the nitrogen goes through and how it is used in
many ways like fertilizer in the soil. For chaos it could be how the nitrogen
compounds in rain water and lightning and how it can harm us.