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    Name: _____________________________ Date: ________________________

    Student Exploration: Plants and Snails

    Vocabulary: aerobic respiration, bromothymol blue (BTB), carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle,


    indicator, interdependence, photosynthesis

    Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)

    1. What important gas do we take in when we breathe?

    Oxygen

    2. Why don’t we run out of the important gases that we need to stay alive?
    Because of the carbon cycle

    Gizmo Warm-up
    In the Plants and Snails Gizmo, each of the test tubes
    contains water and a small amount of bromothymol blue
    (BTB). BTB is a chemical indicator. An indicator changes
    color when the chemicals in the water change.

    1. With the lights set to on, drag a snail into one test tube
    and a plant into another. Press Play ( ). After 24
    hours, what is the color of each tube?
    Yellow

    2. Select Show oxygen and CO2 values. Place the O2/CO2 probe in each tube. The probe
    shows the levels of two gases, oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2), in the tubes. We call
    these amounts the gas levels.

    A. When the water turns blue, which gas is most common? Oxygen

    B. When the water turns yellow, which gas is most common? Carbon Dioxide.

    C. What does it tell you when the water is green? Its nutrual
    Get the Gizmo ready:
    Activity A:
     Click Reset ( ).
    Gases in and
     Clear all of the test tubes.
    gases out
     Turn on Show oxygen and CO2 values.

    Question: What gases do plants and animals take in and what do they give off?

    1. Collect data: Use the Gizmo to learn what gases plants and animals take in and give off. Try
    it in both light and dark. Record your results below. If you do more than five experiments,
    write your extra results in your notebook or on separate sheets of paper.

    What is in the tube Lights: on/off Results


    Took more oxygen and released more carbon.
    Snail on
    Snail died.
    Elodea on Took more carbon and released more Oxygen
    Took more oxygen and released more carbon.
    Snail off
    Snail died.
    Elodea off Took more carbon and released more Oxygen
    Snail Have about the same levels of oxygen and
    on
    & Elodea carbon

    2. Analyze: Study your data on gases given off by plants.

    A. What gas do plants give off in the light? Oxygen

    B. How about in the dark? Both but there is a little more carbon than oxygen

    3. Analyze: Study your data on gases given off by animals.

    A. What gas do animals give off in the light? Carbon

    B. How about in the dark? Carbon

    C. How do these results compare to your plant results? The plants gave out of more
    oxygen when the light was on and more carbon when they were off while the animal
    gave out more carbon on both occasions

    4. Infer: Describe the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle by completing the sentences below:

    Animals breathe in Oxygen and breathe out Carbon.

    In sunlight, plants take in Carbon and release Oxygen.

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    Get the Gizmo ready:
    Activity B:  Click Reset.
     Clear all of the test tubes.
    Interdependence  Turn the light switch to on.
     Check Show oxygen and CO2 values.

    Question: How do plants and animals depend on each other?

    1. Observe: Put one sprig of Elodea and one snail in a test tube with the lights on. Click Play.

    A. Does the color of the water in the tube change? Blue

    B. What happens to the O2 and CO2 levels? The oxygen levels increase while the
    carbon levels decrease.

    2. Predict: Without using the Gizmo, predict what you think will happen to the gas levels in
    each case listed below. (Leave the Actual result column blank for now.)

    Tube Prediction Actual result


    2 snails, 2 sprigs, There should be a cycle that Snails stayed alive since there
    lights on allows both snails to stay alive was a balance and cycle
    1 snail, 2 sprigs, There should be enough oxygen The plants produced enough
    lights on for the snail to survive oxygen
    The snail should die since there
    There was more carbon than
    1 snail, 2 sprigs, is no light to power the
    oxygen thus making the snail
    lights off photosynthesis thus leaving the
    suffocate
    snail with no oxygen

    3. Run Gizmo: Now run the Gizmo to test your predictions. Record your findings in the table.

    4. Generalize: Describe how plants and animals each contribute to the survival of the other.
    (This type of cooperative relationship is called interdependence.)
    The animal gives the plant carbon dioxide who, uses it to power photosynthesis to create
    oxygen which the animal uses to and produces carbon dioxide. And the cycle keeps going

    5. Challenge: Simulate a 24-hour day (12 hours of light, 12 hours of dark). How many snails
    and plants do you need to keep a stable environment? Explain any discoveries you make.
    One snail and two plant

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    Get the Gizmo ready:
    Activity C:  Click Reset.
    The carbon-oxygen  Clear all of the test tubes.
    balance  Turn the light switch to on.
     Check Show oxygen and CO2 values.

    Question: How are the amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide related to each other?

    1. Observe: Put two Elodea sprigs into a test tube. Put the O2/CO2 probe into the tube with the
    Elodea. Click Play. As the Gizmo runs, Pause ( ) it a few times.

    A. How do the oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels change over time? The
    oxygen increases dramaticly while the cardon completly left

    B. What is always true about the total amount of O2 and CO2 in the test tube?
    It will always equal to twelve

    C. What happens when the CO2 reaches zero? The oxygen gets maxed

    2. Revise and repeat: Click Reset and run the experiment again, this time with the lights off.

    A. How do the gas levels change? O2: 3 CO2: 9

    B. What is the total of O2 and CO2? 12

    3. Revise and repeat: Click Reset. Remove the plants. Repeat the experiment with two snails.

    A. How do the gas levels change? O2: 1.7 CO2: 10.3

    B. What is the total of O2 and CO2? 12

    4. Challenge: In the process of photosynthesis, plants use carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O),
    and light energy to produce a sugar (C6H12O6) and oxygen (O2). In the process of aerobic
    respiration, animals and plants release energy from sugar and oxygen and produce carbon
    dioxide and water. The chemical equations that describe these reactions look like this:

    6CO2 + 6H2O + light à C6H12O6 + 6O2 C6H12O6 + 6O2 à 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy

    How do these equations explain why the total amount of O2 and CO2 remains the same?

    E. coli has no membrane-bound organelles like a nucleus but contains important structures like
    ribosomes for making proteins and a nucleoid with its DNA. It also has a cell wall, cell
    membrane, and sometimes flagella or pili for movement and attachment.

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