The Importance of Carbon! Diamonds Are a Girl

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The Importance of Carbon!Diamonds Are a Girls
Best Friend!
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What is Carbon?

• Carbon is a naturally occurring element, and
  creates the hardest known materials on Earth
• It is found on the periodic table, atomic number
  6
• Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a product of carbon and
  is a pollutant

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Little Known Facts?

• Carbon creates the hardest mineral on Earth
• That Mineral is a diamond
• Carbon forms coal which hides that beautiful gem
• Diamonds can only be cut by other carbon based
  diamond drills!

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What is the Carbon Cycle?

• Matter that is used over and over again takes up
  space, has mass, and has a repeating cycle.
• The movement of carbon from the environment into
  living things and back to the environment
• English translation. The carbon cycle is similar
  to the water cycle in that it is on-going.

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Carbon Cycle

• Carbon enters an ecosystem (all living things
  live in some kind of ecosystem) when living
  things (plants, humans, and animals) take in
  carbon dioxide from the atmosphere .
• Plants do this during photosynthesis

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Fossil Fuels

• Organic substances such as coal, oil, and natural
  gas that is used as an energy source and is
  formed from the remains of organisms (former
  living things) that lived many years ago.

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• Fossil Fuels are a nonrenewable resource because
  they were formed from the remains of plant and
  animal matter from many years ago.
• Once they are gone, they are gone forever!

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Transpiration

• The process of evaporation from plants.
  Basically, plants sweating.

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Transpiration
Environmental factors that can affect
transpiration Light Temperature Humidity Wind Soi
l Water
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Consumers

• Heterotrophs
• Do not create their own food.
• Eat plants and other animals to obtain energy

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Why do we need Carbon?

• Carbon is essential to all living things because
  all living things have tiny molecules of carbon
  living inside
• When we breathe we inhale oxygen to survive, our
  bodies produce carbon dioxide, and it is exhaled
  from our lungs.
• Just breathing may cause the atmosphere to hold
  heat.
• So the next time your teacher says stop talking
  so muchdo it for the environment!

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Carbon Cycle
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Global Warming

• Global warming is a theory! It continues to
  change every year.
• Global warming- The theory that the temperature
  of the Earth is rising and causing negative
  events worldwide.
• Greenhouse Effect- The earth is releasing more
  carbon than we are using, causing excessive
  amounts of carbon molecules in the atmosphere.
  Carbon molecules in the atmosphere trap heat from
  the sun.

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Summary

• When we burn fossil fuels we add to the seemingly
  endless supply of carbon in the atmosphere.
• Carbon dioxide causes the atmosphere to hold
  heat.
• Warmer atmosphere causes the temperatures of the
  land and oceans to rise.

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Vocabulary Terms

• Photosynthesis- the process plants use to take
  carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and make
  energy in the carbon cycle plants use carbon
  dioxide from the air to make sugars
• Erosion the wearing away of top soil by wind or
  water
• Decomposition the breakdown of dead materials
  into carbon dioxide and water
• Respiration the exchange of gases by living
  things. Breathing out carbon dioxide, breathing
  in oxygen.
• Fossil Fuels come from buried remains of
  long-dead organisms to be burned for energy

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Vocabulary Terms

• Carbon cycle the movement of carbon from the
  environment into living things and back to the
  environment Life exists because carbon can be
  cycled within the Earth and the atmosphere
• Combustion- the process of burning, (fossil fuels
  such as natural gas, coal or petroleum
• Transpiration- the process in which some water
  within plants evaporates back into the
  atmosphere. (Plant sweat)
• Nitrogen a type of gas that has neither smell
  nor color that is a large part of the atmosphere
  and the air we breathe
• Decompose the break down of organic materials