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Watch It Move: Carbon Cycle
A “Watch it move” animation for Biology Made Fun, Unit 9 — the code printed on page 97, Unit 9's Color & Label carbon-cycle page.
Animation — Carbon CycleThe concept animation for this page will be embedded here.
Key ideas from the lesson
- Producers capture carbon from the air as they make food by photosynthesis — the entry point of the cycle.
- Carbon passes from organism to organism along the food chain as consumers eat.
- Decomposers break down dead matter and return its nutrients — carbon included — to the soil and air, ready for producers to use again. Matter cycles; that is why it doesn't run out.
Why this helps
This is the “Watch it move” companion to Unit 9's Color & Label carbon-cycle page: the arrows you colored, carrying real carbon around the loop.
Try this
Follow one carbon atom for a full lap: air, producer, consumer, decomposer, and back to the start. Name the process that moves it at each arrow.
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