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Name:______________________

Period:______________________

Carbon Cycle Guided Notes


Introduction

What is Carbon?
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What are different forms of carbon?


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Why is carbon important?


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Initial Model

Draw arrows and label how carbon cycles/ moves through the environment
Atmosphere

What form is carbon in the atmosphere?

Why do carbon dioxide


concentrations rise and fall each
year?
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Land

Vegetation

Draw and label a picture that demonstrates the reactants and products of
photosynthesis. Circle what carbon dioxide is transformed into.

Soil/Organic Matter

List the five forms of organic matter







What is cellular respiration?

Sketch how Carbon cycles between the Land and Atmosphere


Ocean (annotate the flow chart provided)
Fossil Fuel Emissions

Use the video to help complete this table

Type: Gasoline

How is it formed

How is it used

How does contribute


to the carbon cycle?

Human impact

Write an argument for whether you believe humans impact the carbon cycle. Use 3
pieces of evidence from the notes to support your argument.

Humans do / do not impact the carbon cycle because


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REVISE Your Carbon Cycle model using the information from this
lecture

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