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Activity Six: The carbon cycle

Part One Part Two
Solar energy 1. Eating (herbivory) 2
Carbon in CO2 Respiration by plants 5
Excreta/death in animals 4
Photosynthesis 1
Photosynthesis Respiration Respiration by decomposers 7
Excreta/death in plants 3
Respiration by animals 6

Carbon in starch,
protein, etc

3. a. Carbon dioxide, methane.

b. Sugars, starch, proteins, vitamin C.
c. Proteins, vitamins, hormones, enzymes (but not starch).
d. Calcium carbonate.
4. a. Photosynthesis
b. Respiration
5. a. Herbivores would die first / CO2 levels would increase and O2 levels would decrease. All other animals
would die next. Decomposers would die last.
b. Dead leaves, bodies and wastes would pile up, locking up their carbon content. The CO2 levels in the
air would decrease. Plant growth would slow … life could die out.
c. Plants would grow out of control for a while until a new balance was established.

Cold steel (page 146)

1. Steel/iron.
2. Iron.
3. Because it corrodes/rusts.
4. Metals are malleable.
5. Metals expand when heated.
6. Steel is very strong.

Rust never sleeps (page 147)

Results
Test tube Observations
1 – Steel wool with tap water The silvery-grey wool went red-brown (with rust).
2 – Steel wool with boiled water No change at first, but later it starts rusting at the surface of the water.
3 – Steel wool without water No change.
Questions
1. To prove that steel doesn’t rust in the absence of water.