1. Investigation 2 Claims:
Essential Question: How do carnivorous plants get energy and matter within an ecosystem? Investigation Question: How does carbon cycle within an ecosystem?
Investigation 2 Claims:
Carbon is assembled into protein molecules by plants through photosynthesis in the chloroplast. Animals eat the plants and absorb carbon during respiration. Carbon is stored in the ground by decomposers.
Terms of Use:
Photosynthesis, Respiration, Decomposition, ATPase, Chloroplasts, Mitochondria

2. How does carbon cycle within an ecosystem?
Evidence 2.1
Justification
How does the evidence justify the claim that carbon is assembled into protein molecules by plants through photosynthesis in the chloroplast?
Terms: Photosynthesis, Chloroplast, ATPase

3. How does carbon cycle within an ecosystem?
Evidence 2.2
Justification
How does the evidence justifies the claim that animals eat the plants and absorb carbon during respiration? Terms: Respiration, Mitochondria, ATPase

4. How does carbon cycle within an ecosystem?
Evidence 2.3
Justification
How does the evidence
justify the claim that
carbon is stored in the
ground by decomposers?
Terms: Decomposition

5. Investigation Question: How does crbon cycle within an ecosystem?
Claim: Carbon is assembled into protein molecules by plants through photosynthesis in the chloroplast. Animals eat the plants and absorb carbon during respiration. Carbon is stored in the ground by decomposers. Justification: The claim is supported by evidence because… Evidence: Use the evidence presented (2.1 – 2.3) to justify the claim stated above.