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Carbon Cycle Web Game
Carbon Cycle Web Game
Description: Students will explore a web game that identifies sources of carbon and the changes
it goes through as it travels the carbon cycle.
Procedures:
1. Hand out student sheet.
2. Go over the procedures.
3. Have students log on to the following website:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/climate/carbon_cycle.html
4. Give students time to work
5. Discuss analysis questions.
Answers:
1. 0.04%
2. CO2, water vapor, methane & nitrous oxide – all these molecules vibrate when
they absorb heat, they help keep heat in the atmosphere
3. 3%
4. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants or other autotrophs take water and
carbon dioxide and change it into sugar and oxygen
5. 65%
6. phytoplankton
7. answers will vary
8. No, carbon will cycle forever
9. Answers will vary
10. More greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
Title: Carbon Cycle Web Game Name______________________________
Procedures:
1. Go to the website: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/climate/carbon_cycle.html
2. Read the introduction.
3. Click to begin your journey.
4. Go to each source of carbon and fill out the data section. Describe the form of carbon, how
it
5. Answer each carbon challenge question.
6. Answer the analysis questions.
Data:
Analysis:
4. What is photosynthesis?