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Hunter McCarty Carbon Cycle Gizmo 2021 Bio

Explore the Carbon Cycle with this simulation! Track how carbon moves through the atmosphere, plants, animals, oceans, and fossil fuels, showing nature’s balance and human impact.

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    Gizmos Name: Hunter Date: Student Exploration: Carbon Cycle Directions: Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and prompts in the orange boxes. Vocabulary: atmosphere, biomass, biosphere, carbon reservoir, carbon sink, fossil fuel, geosphere greenhouse gas. hydrosphere, lithosphere, photosynthesis Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using lhe Gizmo.) In the process of photosynthesis plants lake in carbon dioxide (CO.) from lhe atmosphere and waler (HjO) from lhe soil. Using the energy of sunlight plants build molecules of glucose (C H Oe) and oxygen {O 2 ). 1. How do plants on Earth affect the amounl of cartoon in Earth's almosphere? They take carbon and turn it into oxygen. 2. Animals eat plants and produce carbon dioxide and waler. How do animals affect the amounl of carbon in Earth's almosphere? They breathe out cartocn dioxide for the plants. Gizmo Warm-up The Carbon Cycle Gizmo allows you Io follow the many paths an atom of carbon can take through Earth s systems. To begin nolice the black carbon atom in the Atmospheric CO = area, highlighted in yellow. The glowing blue areas represent possible localions lhe cartoon atom could go next. 1. From Earth’s atmosphere, where can the cartoon atom go next? It could go to oceanic CO2 next. 2. Click on Land plants and read the description. How did the carbon atom get from the almosphere to a plant? The carbon gels Io the plant through photosynthesis. 3. Select Land animals. How did the carbon atom get from land pl a nIs into lhe animal? Animals consume plants, however a lot of carbon isn't consumed from the plant because it is stored in lhe wood. 4. Select Atmospheric COj How did lhe carbon atom gel from land animals back to lhe atmosphere?

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    In a process called cellular respiration the animal breathes oul water and CO2 into the atmosphere. Activity A: Get lhe Gizmo ready: Carbon pathways • Click Reset. Introduction: Earth can be divided into four systems. The atmosphere is the air above Earth's surface. The hydrosphere is composed of all of Earth's water. The geosphere is lhe rocky, non-living part of Earth. The biosphere consists of all living things, including people. Some scientists use the term "anthroposphere" to describe everything made or modified by humans. Question: How does carbon move between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere? 1. Explore: Use the Gizmo Io create a path for cartoon that begins and ends in the atmosphere. Fill in lhe steps in the path below. Then, label each location with lhe system it represents. Finally, summarize very briefly how lhe carbon atom got to that location. Cartoon path System How it got there Atmospheric CO 2 1 Atmosphere Atmospheric CO 2 comes from volcanoes, burning fossil fuels, and other sources. oceanic CO2 I hydrosphere Carbon dioxide dissolves in cold ocean surface waters. Marine plants/algae 1 hydrosphere, biosphere In the process of photosynthesis marine plants remove carbon dioxide from lhe waler. sediments 1 geosphere uneaten plants and algae drift down to lhe ocean floor and become marine sediments. petroleum 1 geosphere as sediments are compressed and heated, over millions of years, petroleum and natural gas are formed. These fossil fuels are extracted from wells. lithosphere 1 geosphere rock layers containing petroleum may be buried deep in earth"s crust and healed Io very high temperatures, destroying the

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    petroleum and forming carbon dioxide volcano 1 geosphere deep in earth's crust, rocks are heated Io high temperalures and melted. This causes carbon dioxide to be dissolved in magma below volcanoes. 2. Create: Click Reset Use the Gizmo Io create a path in which lhe carbon atom goes from the atmosphere to the hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere. Describe each transition briefly. Atmosphere Hydrosphere Biosphere Geosphere Atmospheric CO : oceanic co2 ■■ K marine plants “* ■ sediments Volcanoes, burning fossil fuels, and olher sources. ?? 3. Explore: Use the Gizmo Io create three more carbon paths, each starting and ending in the atmosphere. Label each location with A for atmosphere. B for biosphere. G for geosphere, or H for hydrosphere. {You can also use P foirthe anthroposphere if you like, or just include il in the biosphere.) Path 1: Atmospheric (A), land planls (B). Soil (G), Sediments (G), Petroleum {G), Car (P). Atmospheric {Aj. Path 2: Atmospheric (A), Exposed rocks (G). Oceanic CO2 (H). P.1arine Planls (B). Sediments (G), Lithosphere (G), Volcano (G), Atmospheric (A). Path 3: Atmospheric (A), Land Planls (B) Forest tire (A), Soil (G), Sediments (G), Natural Gas (A). Atmospheric CH4 (A). Atmospheric CO2 (A). 4. Explain: Based on lhe Gizmo, explain how lhe following transitions might take place: A. Describe at least two ways that carbon can gel from a land planl to the atmosphere. 1. II could turn into a forest fire and become part of lhe sial. Ihen moving to sediments then Io natural gases. Ihen back inIo the atmosphere. 2. it could go into coal, then a power plant then go back into the air. B. Describe at least two ways that carbon can gel from lhe almosphere Io the hydrosphere. 1. II could be in the air and Ihen go into the ocean.

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