Questions and Assignments

Use this lesson plan to help your students find answers to:

• What are allotropes? What are the various allotropes of carbon and their properties?
• What are the sources of black carbon?
• What are the different effects of black carbon on clouds? How does it modify rainfall pattern?
• How does the deposition of black carbon on ice caps affect melting of the ice?
• Explain how black carbon can have a cooling or warming effect on the planet?
• What is the effect of black carbon on human health?