1. What inorganic molecule is carbon normally found in?

CO2 Name _________________________

2. Name an organic molecule that carbon is found in. GLUCOSE, Carbon Cycle Worksheet
CARBOHYDRATES, LIPIDS, PROTEINS, DNA

3. What molecule do trees get their carbon from? CO2

4. Where do primary consumers get their carbon from? EATING PLANTS

5. What process adds carbon to the atmosphere? CELLULAR RESPIRATION

In the space below, draw your own version
of the carbon cycle. Use arrows to show
6. What process removes carbon from the atmosphere? PHOTOSYNTHESIS
which way the carbon is going.
Label:
7. How does oxygen get into the water? PHOTOSYNTHESIS MOVEMENT
Producers
OF WATER
Primary Consumers
Secondary Consumers
8. What do producers produce? GLUCOSE (CARBOHYDRATES)

9. List 3 groups of producers? PLANTS ALGAE SOME BACTERIA

10. What group eats producers? PRIMARY CONSUMERS

11. How does carbon get back into the atmosphere from the food we eat?
CELLULAR RESPRATION

12. Where do secondary consumers get their carbon from? PRIMARY

CONSUMERS

13. Where does an animal’s or plant’s carbon go when it dies? GROUND

14. Why should the amount of carbon in the atmosphere stay the same?
PHOTSYNTHESIS AND RESPIRATION SHOULD BALANCE EACH OTHER
OUT.
15. How is extra carbon getting into the atmosphere today? BURNING FOSSIL
FUELS
16. List 3 ways that we could reduce the extra carbon that is getting into the
atmosphere.
1. PLANT TREES 2. USE LESS FOSSIL FUELS
3. REMOVE CO2 FROM EMISSIONS 4. CONSERVE ELECTRICITY
5. ELECTRIC CARS
1. Why do plants and animals and animals need nitrogen (N)? Name _________________________
TO BUILD PROTEIN MOLECULES
2. What molecule in the atmosphere is nitrogen normally found in? N2 Nitrogen Cycle Worksheet

N
3. What molecule in the ground is nitrogen found when there is no oxygen around?
NH3

4. What molecule in the ground is nitrogen found when there is oxygen around? NO3

5. What organic molecule is nitrogen found in? AMINO ACIDS, PROTEINS In the space below, draw your own version
of the nitrogen cycle. Use arrows to show
6. What are 2 ways that atmospheric nitrogen gets into the ground? NITROGEN- which way the carbon is going.
FIXING BACTERIA LIGHTNING Label:
Producers (Plants)
7. What organisms (living things) do the nitrogen fixation for plants? BACTERIA Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
8. Why don’t farmers have to put nitrogen fertilizer on soybeans? SOYBEANS ARE Primary Consumers
LEGUMES; HAVE NITROGEN-FIXING BACTERIA Secondary Consumers
Decomposers
9. Where do plants get their nitrogen from? THE GROUND (NO3)

10. How do primary consumers get their nitrogen from? EATING PLANT PROTEIN

11. How do secondary consumers get their nitrogen from? EATING ANIMAL
PROTEIN

12. What’s another term for a primary consumer? HERBIVORE

13. What’s another term for a secondary consumer? CARNIVORE

14. Where does an animal’s or plant’s nitrogen go when it dies? GROUND AFTER
BACTERIA DECOMPOSE THE ORGANISM

15. Who breaks the dead organisms’ body back into inorganic nitrogen? BACTERIA

16. How is extra nitrogen getting into the Bay ecosystem? BURNING FOSSIL FUELS
FERTILIZER SEWAGE (ANIMAL OR HUMAN WASTE) DECAY
17. Why is extra Nitrogen (N) in the Chesapeake Bay a problem? 1. EXTRA N
CAUSES ALGAE BLOOMS. 2. ALGAE BLOCKS SUNLIGHT FOR SAV
PHOTOSYYNTHESIS 3. WHEN ALGAE DIE, BACTERIA USE UP OXYGEN
BREAKING IT DOWN (EUTROPHICATION)