Carbon Cycle Game

CarbonCycle Game

Start

Begin

Introduction

• Roll both dice. Find your starting location on the next slide. Press the link to go to that part of the water cycle.
• Record your starting location in your notebook.
• Roll a single die. Press the link for that number to go to the next spot in the water cycle.
• Record the new location in your notebook.
• Continue until you have filled all of the boxes on your sheet.

• Biology A Workbook
• Colored pencil
• 2 dice

Direction

Introduction

Starting Location

1. Roll 2 dice.
2. Total the two dice
3. Find the number for the location your carbon molecule is starting at and click.

Fossil Fuels>

Marine

OCEAN SURFACE

Consumer

Roll the dice

Ocean Surface

Consumer

Atmosphere

Plants

Ocean

Deep Ocean

Plant

Rocks

Rocks

Soil

Marine Ecosystem

Soil

Fossil Fuels

Lithosphere

Lithosphere

Hydrosphere

Hydrosphere

Hydrosphere

Pedosphere

Biosphere

Biosphere

Fossil Fuels

DEEP OCEAN

atmosphere

HYDROSPHEREDeep Ocean

Roll the dice

gO to Rock

gO to Ocean Surface

gO to Fossil Fuels

Carbon Dioxide

Carbonates

Hydrocarbons

Nutrients from decomposed organism

gO to Ocean Surface

gO to atmosphere

gO to consumer

Roll the dice

gO to Rock

PEDOSPHERESoil

Atmosphere

gO to MaRine Ecosystem

gO to Ocean Surface

Roll the dice

gO to plant

HYDROSPHEREOcean Surface

Roll the dice

gO to MaRine Ecosystem

gO to MaRine Ecosystem

gO to atmosphere

BIOSPHEREMarine Ecosystem

gO to Ocean Surface

gO to atmosphere

gO to Rock

Roll the dice

BIOSPHEREPlants

gO to Consumerw

gO to atmosphere

Roll the dice

The plant uses you for energy during respiration.

A consumer eats the plant and converts its sugars to fat.

The plant uses you to grow its body parts and changes you intostarch. You are still a plant part.

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BIOSPHEREConsumers

Roll the dice

The organism uses you for energy during respiration.

gO to Soil

gO to atmosphere

The organism you are part of dies and decomposes into small pieces. You become part of the soil.

You become part of the organisms cellsas fat or protein.

LITHOSPHERERocks

gO

gO

gO to atmosphere

gO to Soil

Roll the dice

The rock you are part of erodes intosmaller solid minerals.

The rock you are part of remainspart of the crust. You are still a solid mineral.

The rock you are part of melts anddecomposes into the air from a volcanic eruption.

LITHOSPHEREFossil Fuels

Roll the dice

gO to atmosphere

The fossil fuels you are part ofare extracted from the groundand burned for energy.

The fossil fuels you are part of remain buried and you are stilla fossil fuel.