This interactive animation focuses on the carbon cycle and includes embedded videos and captioned images to provide greater clarification and detail of the cycle than would be available by a single static visual alone.
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This can be used in conjunction with the transcript that quantifies various carbon sinks on the planet.
The cycle is color-coded: blue for processes and grey for carbon stores.
Long-term carbon cycle dynamics are included, but more in-depth volcanic and subduction contributions to the carbon cycle are not detailed.
Review from expert scientist: The activity gives a very nice overview of the carbon cycle and methods how to record changes in CO2 in the Ocean.
The different compartments of the Earth System - water/soil/air - are all taken into account.
The material comprises a very good and appropriate mixture of videos, pictures and very brief, concise text sections and also more detailed reports.
This is a well-constructed interactive. By clicking on various parts of the cycle, the user can either view a short video (under 30 seconds) about the topic, or view a static diagram with more information.
There are also many additional links at this site to lessons, especially about oceans and cycles.
Click on the diagram within the webpage to enlarge its size.
The short video segments also have the transcripts provided below the video.
