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Mind Map by stella watkins, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by stella watkins
over 9 years ago
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Waste materials from plants and
animals
- Recycling in ecosystems
- living things remove materials from the environment for growth and other processes.
- • These materials are returned to the environment either in waste materials or when living things die
and decay.
- • Materials decay because they are broken down (digested) by microorganisms (decomposers).
- • Microorganisms digest materials faster in warm, moist conditions.
- • Many microorganisms are also more active when there is plenty of oxygen – aerobic conditions.
- • The decay process releases substances which plants need to grow.
- • In a stable community, the processes which remove materials are balanced by processes which
return materials.
- • The materials are constantly cycled.
- • The materials are constantly cycled.
- • In a stable community, the processes which remove materials are balanced by processes which
return materials.
- • The decay process releases substances which plants need to grow.
- • Many microorganisms are also more active when there is plenty of oxygen – aerobic conditions.
- • Microorganisms digest materials faster in warm, moist conditions.
- • Materials decay because they are broken down (digested) by microorganisms (decomposers).
- • These materials are returned to the environment either in waste materials or when living things die
and decay.
- living things remove materials from the environment for growth and other processes.
- Carbon Cycle
- • The constant cycling of carbon in ecosystems.
- • Carbon dioxide is removed from the environment by green plants and algae for photosynthesis.
- • The carbon from the carbon dioxide is used to make carbohydrates, fats and proteins which make
up the body of plants and algae.
- • Some of the carbon dioxide is returned to the atmosphere when green plants and algae respire.
- • When green plants and algae are eaten by animals and these animals are eaten by other animals,
some of the carbon becomes part of the fats and proteins which make up their bodies.
- • When animals respire some of this carbon becomes carbon dioxide and is released into the
atmosphere.
- • When plants, algae and animals die, some animals (detritus feeders) and microorganisms
(decomposers) feed on their bodies.
- • Carbon is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide when these organisms respire.
- • By the time the microorganisms and detritus feeders have broken down the waste products and
dead bodies of organisms in ecosystems and cycled the materials as plant nutrients, all the energy
originally captured by green plants has been transferred.
- • Combustion of wood and fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
- • Combustion of wood and fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
- • By the time the microorganisms and detritus feeders have broken down the waste products and
dead bodies of organisms in ecosystems and cycled the materials as plant nutrients, all the energy
originally captured by green plants has been transferred.
- • Carbon is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide when these organisms respire.
- • When plants, algae and animals die, some animals (detritus feeders) and microorganisms
(decomposers) feed on their bodies.
- • When animals respire some of this carbon becomes carbon dioxide and is released into the
atmosphere.
- • When green plants and algae are eaten by animals and these animals are eaten by other animals,
some of the carbon becomes part of the fats and proteins which make up their bodies.
- • Some of the carbon dioxide is returned to the atmosphere when green plants and algae respire.
- • The carbon from the carbon dioxide is used to make carbohydrates, fats and proteins which make
up the body of plants and algae.
- • The constant cycling of carbon in ecosystems.
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