Video Starter(2:54-4:07 – 2x)
Lesson Slides
- When plants are not doing photosynthesis, they take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide and water above the surface.
- Plants use their stored food molecules in cellular respiration for energy just as animals do.
- Sugar that is made from photosynthesis can be stored and is also used for plant growth.
- All the food we eat, even the food from animals, can be traced back to being from plants at some point.
- Decomposers recycle matter and energy from dead plants and animals back into the system.
- Atoms are continuously moving between living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) things.
- Atoms are continuously recycled. Nothing is really new. The atoms that make up something new (or any living or nonliving thing) had been a part of something else before.
Carbon Cycle Reading, Diagram and Questions
7.4 Review Games
Study Guide
My Story as a Carbon Atom
🌱 Plant
- I start in the air as CO₂.
- A plant takes in CO₂ and uses photosynthesis to make sugar.
- I become part of the plant.
🐄 Animal
- An animal eats the plant and takes me in.
- Cellular respiration breaks down the food for energy.
- I am released back into the air as CO₂ (or stay in the body).
🍄 Decomposer
- A decomposer breaks down dead plants/animals or waste.
- It uses cellular respiration for energy.
- I am released back into the air as CO₂.
7.4 Review Games
NEMS Copy of 7.4 Lesson 14
Assessment Story of an Atom
No HW Spot Interactive Science Games
7.5 Overview Project Planet Earth 2 – Viewing Guides
Ecosystem Research Project Template
Deserts Episode