Nature's Natives, Climate, Water, Oil Spill, Greenhouse Effect, Photosynthesis, Water Cycle, Nutrient Cycle, Nutrition, Nitrogen Cycle, Carbon Cycle, Peace of Mind, Nature, Environment, Sun, ozone, oxygen, carbon dioxide, carbon, bacteria, iron, magnesium, calcium
Nature's Natives, Climate, Water, Oil Spill, Greenhouse Effect, Photosynthesis, Water Cycle, Nutrient Cycle, Nutrition, Nitrogen Cycle, Carbon Cycle, Peace of Mind, Nature, Environment, Sun, ozone, oxygen, carbon dioxide, carbon, bacteria, iron, magnesium, calcium
CARBON CYCLE
WHERE IS OUR CARBON?
Carbon is part of glucose.
Plants make glucose through photosynthesis.
We eat the glucose that's in our food.
Food gets into our insides. The carbon in glucose changes into carbon dioxide.
We put gas in our cars.
Cars that run on oil based gas puts carbon dioxide into the air.
HOW DOES CARBON GET INTO THE AIR?
A. We Breathe Out Carbon Dioxide
How do we get carbon in us, so that we can breathe it out?
B. Burning Fossil Fuels
Millions of years ago
plants died.
The carbon became part of oil.
Now we drill for oil. Sometimes the oil is under the land. Sometimes oil is under water.
Carbon is underground in rocks, coal and oil.
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Carbon is in the air as
carbon dioxide.
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Carbon is in glucose and travels in the food chain.
Glucose moves into food.
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We breathe out the carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide goes out into the air.
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They took their carbon
with them.
Over time the carbon was buried deeper and deeper.
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Oil is turned into gas
which fuels our cars.
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The Sun gives us energy.
Carbon is in living things, in the air and underground.
There are 6 carbon atoms in 1 glucose molecule.
Carbon dioxide is made up of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms.
Nature's Natives® is a simplified representation of how nature works.
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