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| nonliving components of the ecosystem |
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chemical reaction is which oxygen is used to break glucose down into carbon dioxide and water. Energy is also released in this process.
Glucose + oxygen -> carbon dioxide + water + energy
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| dead plants and organic waste (like cow poop) convert their stored nitrogen back into ammonia with help of decomposers |
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| plants that incorporate the nitrogen into organic molecules (DNA, amino acids, protein, etc.) Animals might then chow on the plants to incorporating the nitrogen into their bodies |
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| makes its own energy (producers) |
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| quantitative weight of living matter (jungles have most bio mass, deserts have least) |
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| living components of the ecostystem |
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| enters living organisms through plans when CO2 is converted to carbohydrates during photosynthesis, carbon is released into the atmosphere in form of co2 durring cellular respiration and when decomposers break down the remains of dead plants and animals. |
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| animal that eats only meat |
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| eats primary consumers (carnivore) |
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| organisms that break down or feeds on dead organic matter ex. fungus or bacteria |
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| some of the nitrates can be converted back into atmospheric N2 through help of bacteria |
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| 1st law of thermodynamics |
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| energy is conserved, not created or destroyed. it can only change in form |
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| a linear list of who eats who. the arrows point to who is doing the consuming |
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| more complex interwoven diagram of which organisms prefers to eat each other |
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| an organism that can't fix carbon itself and must get it from other sources |
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| peas, beans soy, cashew, alfalfa that bacteria symbiotically live on |
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| different set of bacteria break down the ammonia by combining it with oxygen to create nitrites and then finally nitrate. plants can then absorb nitrates. |
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| atmospheric nitrogen is "fixed" or transformed by bacteria living symbiotically on plant roots of legumes the bacteria change the N2 into ammonia. |
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| very slow cycle, crucial element required for energy transfer in organisms. |
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| carbon dioxide + water → sugar/glucose |
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| feeds on dead animals ex.coyote, vulture, hyena |
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| 2nd law of thermodynamics |
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| energy transfers lead to the energy being in a less "concentrated" lower form |
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