The Carbon Cycle: Track the Path of Life’s Essential Element
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What element is found in all known forms of life? Carbon!
Scientists call carbon the chemical backbone of life on Earth. That’s because without carbon, there’d be no humans, animals, plants, microbes, or any other kind of life.
In The Carbon Cycle: Track the Path of Life’s Essential Element, young scientists explore how the first life forms that evolved on our planet consumed carbon and now, 4 billion years later, carbon is still the building block of all known forms of life.
Learn all about the carbon cycle and the human influence on that cycle through a compelling narrative, links to online resources, essential questions, text-to-world observations, hands-on STEM activities, and graphic-novel-style illustrations and photographs.
Additional materials include a glossary, a list of media for further learning, a selected bibliography, and index. All books are leveled for Guided Reading level and Lexile and align with Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Earth’s Essential Element
Chapter 1: Carbon in Rocks
Chapter 2: Carbon in the Atmosphere
Chapter 3: Carbon in the Ocean
Chapter 4: Carbon in the Terrestrial Biosphere
Chapter 5: Human Actions and the Carbon Cycle
Glossary
Metric Conversions
Resources
Select Bibliography
Essential Questions
Index