1 In the carbon cycle, are carbon atoms themselves ever created?
Ever
destroyed? Ever changed into other kinds of atoms? Ever changed into
other compounds?
2 What physical processes do occur in the course of the carbon cycle?
3 How do carbon atoms from Carbon Dioxide incorporated into sugar
molecules? What is the potential energy of carbon dioxide?
4 Much of the food ingested into each organism is metabolized in cell
respiration. Why is this so? What does the organism need and get out
of this process and how does it get it?
5 Why is a natural ecosystem not polluted by wastes from the various
organisms? Discuss waste, from what organism and used by.
6 A carbon cycle which was happening before humans were present on
Earth, how would it differ from the carbon cycle diagram nowadays?
7 Explain why fossil fuels are non-renewable resources.
8 Predict what would happen to the carbon atoms if one of the
processes stopped completely – for example, decomposition.
9 Predict what would happen to the carbon atoms if one of the
processes stopped completely – for example, combustion.
10 The plant tissue with carbon atom is now being ingested by a human
as a part of the food. What does a carbon molecule happen next?
11 The plant tissue with carbon atom is now being not ingested by a
human as a part of the food. What does a carbon molecule happen
next?
12 A carbon atom is now in a molecule making up a tissue of a
secondary consumer or a carnivore. What does a carbon molecule
happen next?
13 A Carbon atom is now in a molecule of dead organic matter. What
does a carbon molecule happen next?
