Question

imagine you are volunteering in a 1​ st ​ grade classroom. The students recently learned about the water cycle. One student raises her hand and asks, “I heard that elements like carbon can cycle too. How does carbon cycle? Is it like how water cycles?” How would you explain the cycling of carbon to this 1​ st ​ grade class? Keep in mind that the students have likely not taken an advanced science course ​yet​!

Answer 1

The carbon cycle is similar to the water cycle!

Step-by-step explanation:

The water cycle shows us that water on Earth isn't destroyed or created, it simply moves around in different forms. Carbon is like that too, but except becoming droplets and clouds it passes through stages where it can exist in the ground as things like coal and be burnt where it will then move into the atmosphere as a gas, until eventually that gas is used to grow a plant. Eventually, that plant will be eaten by an animal, and when that animal dies it goes into the ground once again. Hence, the carbon is always there, just going throughout the planet in different forms.

Answer 2

In carbon cycle, carbondioxide gas is present in the atmosphere. This carbondioxide gas is taken inside by the plant body through stomata and made food from it. When this food is eaten by animals, this carbon is transferred to their bodies. During breathing, carbondioxide gas is removed from animal body and the carbondioxide gas again goes to the atmosphere.

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