Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ecosystems
- Communities
- Organisation
- Individual
- The smallest part of an ecosystem
- Population
- Individual organisms of a species
- Community
- Populations of different species
- Competition
- Animals
- Food
- Mates
- Territory
- Plants
- Water
- Mineral ions
- From the soil
- Light
- Space
- Species interdependence
- Food
- Pollination
- Seed dispersal
- Shelter
- Stability
- Environmental factors balanced
- Species balanced
- Population sizes are constant
- Trophic Levels
- Food chains
- Show the feeding
relationships in a
community
- Prey
- Predator
- Apex predators
- Top of the food chain
- Decomposers
- Responsible for recycling organic matter
- The final stop of all food chains
- 1) Producers
- Use photosynthesis to make own food
- Green plants and Algae
- 2) Primary Consumers
- Herbivores that eat producers
- 3) Secondary consumers
- Carnivores that eat herbivores
- 4) Tertiary
consumers
- Carnivores that eat carnivores
- Material Cycles
- Nitrogen
- Plants absorb nitrates through their roots to grow
- Can also absorb nitrogen from the air
- Using root nodule bacteria
- Farmers may add NPK fertilisers to
the soil, which plants can absorb
- They may also use plants with root nodule
bacteria to add nitrates back into infertile soil
- Crop rotation
- The nitrogen is passed-on to animals that eat the plants.
- When plants and animals die, bacteria recycle
nitrogen back into the soil through decomposition.
- When lighting strikes soil, nitrogen is released back into the air.
- Carbon
- Carbon is removed from the atmosphere
by producers who use it in photosynthesis.
- Animals obtain carbon compounds by consuming plant matter
- Respiration returns carbon (dioxide) back into the atmosphere
- When animals and plants die, decomposers return the carbon
locked in their bodies back to the atmosphere via decay.
- Combustion of fossil fuels is another source of carbon entry into the atmosphere.
- Water
- Water evaporates from the Earth’s surface, and rises up into the atmosphere.
- The water vapour cools and condenses into rain or snow
- Eventually returns to the Earth’s surface
- Becomes surface runoff
- Absorbed and ground water
- Plants take up water through their roots.
- We get drinking water by:
- Filtering
- Adding chemicals to freshwater
- Desalinating seawater
- Decay
- Biomass
- Sampling biodiversity
- Relationships between species
- Predator-Prey
- Cyclic in stable conditions
- Canada lynx and Snowshoe hare
- Increase in hare numbers = more food for lynx
- Lynx numbers increase
- Increase lynx numbers = more hare predators
- Hare numbers decrease
- Hare numbers decrease = less food for lynx
- Lynx numbers decrease
- Less lynx = hare population increase
- Mutualistic
- Both species benefit
- Lichen
- Algae
- Fungi
- Share structure and food
- Parasitic
- One organism benefits
- Receives shelter and food
- One organism is harmed
- Loses nutrients and may suffer illness