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Ecology. What is a biome? Give 2 examples. Distinguish between the role of biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. What is the main source of energy in an ecosystem? Explain the ripple effect. What does photosynthesis do? What happens to the energy in an ecosystem?
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What is a biome? Give 2 examples. Distinguish between the role of biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem. What is the main source of energy in an ecosystem? Explain the ripple effect. What does photosynthesis do? What happens to the energy in an ecosystem? Distinguish between producers and consumers? Give examples. Make a sketch and explanation of an energy/biomass/numbers pyramid. Where do consumers get their carbon? How does water become purified by the water cycle? Why is nitrogen important in living organisms? Why are bacteria necessary in the nitrogen cycle? Explain the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle. Questions
What is Ecology? • Ecology - the study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment • Biosphere - contains the combined portions of the planet in which life exists: • Land • Water • Air or atmosphere
Levels of Organization • Species - a group of organisms so genetically similar to one another that they can breed. • Population - groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area. • Communities - assemblages of the different populations that live together in a defined area. • Ecosystem - collection of all the organisms that live together in a particular place as well as their nonliving or physical environment. • Biome - group of ecosystems that have the same climate and similar dominant communities.
Energy Flow • What is the main source of energy for life on Earth? SUNLIGHT • Some types of organisms rely on the energy stored in inorganic chemical compounds • Autotrophs (producers) use energy from the environment to fuel assembly of simple compounds into complex organic molecules
Energy Flow Autotrophs • The best known autotrophs are those harnessing the power of the sun through photosynthesis. — What do they do? • The second type of autotrophs use chemical energy to make carbohydrates. This is performed by several types of bacteria. — Where have we seen evidence for this?
Energy Flow Consumers • Heterotrophs - rely on other organisms for their energy and food • Herbivores - obtain energy by eating plants • Carnivores - obtain energy by eating meat • Omnivores - obtain energy by eating plants & meat • Detritivores - obtain energy by eating dead organic material, esp. plant detritus • Decomposers - obtain energy by decomposing organic material
Energy Flow • Relationship between autotrophs and heterotrophs
Energy Relationships • Energy flows from the sun or inorganic compounds to autotrophs (producers) then to various heterotrophs (consumers) • Food Chains are a series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating or being eaten • Food webs show the complex interactions within an ecosystem • Each step in a food chain or web is called a trophic level. • Producers make up the first step, consumers make up the higher levels
Ecological Pyramids • Ecological pyramid is a diagram showing the amounts of energy or matter contained within each trophic level in a food web or food chain • Energy Pyramid - 10% of the energy available within one trophic level is transferred to organisms at the next trophic level
Pyramids Continued • Biomass pyramids show the total amount of living tissue available at each trophic level • Numbers pyramid shows the number of species at each trophic level • Because each trophic level harvests only about one tenth of the energy from the level below, it can support only about 0.1 the amount of living tissue
Cycles of Matter • Unlike the one-way flow of energy, matter is recycled within and between ecosystems • These cycles are the • Water Cycle • Nutrient Cycle • Oxygen / Carbon Cycle • Nitrogen Cycle • Phosphorus Cycle
What is a biome? Give 2 examples. Distinguish between the role of biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem What is the main source of energy in an ecosystem? Explain the ripple effect. What does photosynthesis do? What happens to the energy in an ecosystem? Distinguish between producers and consumers? Give examples. Make a sketch and explanation of an energy/biomass/numbers pyramid. Where do consumers get their carbon? How does water become purified by the water cycle? Why is nitrogen important in living organisms? Why are bacteria necessary in the nitrogen cycle? Explain the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle. Questions