2. Carbon or not?
• Look around you. Carbon is everywhere: In the paper of every
book, the ink on its pages, and the glue that binds it; in the
soles and leather of your shoes, the synthetic fibers and
colorful dyes of your clothes, and the Teflon zippers and
Velcro strips that fasten them; in every bite of food you eat, in
fizzy water and sparkling wine; in the carpets on your floors,
the paint on your walls, and the tiles on your ceilings; in fuels
from natural gas to gasoline to candle wax; in sturdy wood
and polished marble; in every adhesive and every lubricant; in
the lead of pencils and the diamond of rings; in aspirin and
nicotine, codeine and caffeine, and every other drug you’ve
ever taken; in every plastic from grocery bags to bicycle
helmets, cheap furniture to designer sunglasses. From your
first baby clothes to your silk-lined coffin, carbon atoms
surround you.
• Does it have carbon or not?
3. Microorganisms
• It is estimated
that microorganisms ar
e comprised of up to 50
percent carbon, which
means that they require
a steady supply of this
vital element in order to
survive
4. Glass-carbon or not?
• No. Common glass is usually made of mostly
silica— which is just sand! ... If you
added carbon (or any carbon-containing
material, like your fingers) to glass, at the
temperature of melting glass (think lava
temperature), the carbon would burn
immediately.
5. Water-carbon or no?
• Water is a molecular compound
but also the name of liquids we
encounter around us all day.
The water molecule does not cont
ain carbon atoms
• H2O
6. Humans?
• most of a human body's mass is oxygen. Carbon, the
basic unit for organic molecules, comes in second.
99% of the mass of the human body is made up of
just six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen,
nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.
7. Algae?
• Algae and plants absorbs carbon dioxide
and give out oxygen but they also return
a little carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere. Algae also need water and
they find their nutrients in the water.
Their nutrients are carbon, oxy- gen,
phosphorus and nitrogen.
8. Soda-carbon or not?
• The fizz that bubbles up when you crack open
a can of soda is carbon dioxide gas (CO2). ... An
unopened soda can is virtually bubble-free
because the pressure inside the can keeps
the carbon dioxide dissolved in the liquid..
10. • Cells are largely composed of
compounds that contain carbon.
... These complex molecules are
typically made up of chains and
rings that contain hydrogen,
oxygen, and nitrogen atoms, as
well as carbon atoms.
11. Air
• By volume,
dry air contains 78.09%
nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen,
0.93% argon,
0.04% carbon dioxide,
and small amounts of
other gases
12. Soil
• Soil organic carbon is part of the
natural carbon cycle, and the world's soils holds
around twice the amount of carbon that is found
in the atmosphere and in vegetation. Organic
material is manufactured by plants
using carbon dioxide from the air and water.
13. Wood
• Wood is composed of dry matter and water.
Dry matter is the part
of wood that does not contain water. The
dry matter contains a certain amount of
elements: 50 % carbon (C), 41 % oxygen (O),
and 6 % hydrogen (H). The rest are different
substances, mainly nitrogen (N), sulphur (S)
and ash.
14. Shells
• Seashells come from
organisms that extract
calcium and carbon from the
water around them to form
calcium carbonate shells.
16. Plastic
• Most plastics contain organic polymers. The vast
majority of these polymers are formed from
chains of carbon atoms, 'pure' or with the
addition of: oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur
18. Hydrosphere
• The Hydrosphere includes all of the water on or near the earths
surface including oceans, lakes, rivers, wetlands, polar ice caps,
wetlands, soil, rock layers beneath the earths surface, and clouds
19. Biosphere
• Biology. Life. Living
things. These cycles all
play a role in the lives of
living things. The cycles
might limit the organisms
of Earth or they might
happen along side,
changing the
environment
20. Geosphere
• Earth. Rocks. Land. This refers to the
non-living processes at work. Oxygen
cycles through many systems. It's in
you and plants for the 'bio' part of the
cycle. Oxygen might also wind up in
rocks. The 'geo' part of its cycle.
