Carbon Cycle Simulation and Exploration Virtual…

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University: Capital University

Course: Molecular Biology (BP 723)

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Name:Brenda Vasquez Romero

Carbon Cycle

Vocabulary:
1. Atmosphere: the gasses that surround a planet
2. Biomass: the total mass of a group of living things.
3. Biosphere: living things on a planet.
4. carbon reservoir: a part of Earth that stores carbon.
5. carbon sink: a carbon reservoir that absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and stores it
for a long period of time.
6. fossil fuel:a fuel formed over thousands or millions of years from the remains of living
organisms
7. geosphere:the rocky, non-living parts of a planet
8. greenhouse gas:a gas in Earth’s atmosphere that absorbs and then re-radiates heat
9. hydrosphere:the water on a planet.
10. lithosphere: the rigid upper layer of the Earth
11. photosynthesis: – a process in which plants use energy from light to change carbon
dioxide and water into glucose (sugar) and oxygen.

Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)

In the process of photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and
water (H2O) from the soil. Using the energy of sunlight, plants build molecules of glucose
(C6H12O6) and oxygen (O2).

1. How do plants on Earth affect the amount of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere:Plants take in
carbon dioxide and than would process it into oxygen

2. Animals eat plants and produce carbon dioxide and water. How do animals affect the

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amount of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere: They eat plants that can process carbon

dioxide and when they eat those planet they are fewer plants than can process

carbon dioxide