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FLOW of MATTER and ENERGY
EOC Lesson 11: Energy flow through an ecosystem
Where does most of the original energy come from?
Producers Consumers Decomposers
Use absorbed light to make their own food through photosynthesis
An organism that obtains its food by eating other organismsClassified based on their food sourcePrimary and secondary consumers
Gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organismsReturn chemicals to environment
Plants, green algae, and some bacteria
All animals, many protists, some bacteria
Fungi, many types of bacteria
Trophic levels and food chain• Trophic level = each feeding level• Food chain is used to show the energy flow from one organism to the
next
Food web• Food chain has only 1 path for the flow of energy. Food webs are used
to represent several food chains because there are more than one producer and decomposer.
Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores
Feed on or almost entirely on plants
Feed on or mainly on animals
Eats both plants and animals
Energy Pyramid• Shows the energy loss between the trophic levels in an ecosystem• Only about 10% of the energy is passed from one trophic level to the
next• Rest is “lost” to the environment as heat
Lesson 12: aerobic and anaerobic respiration
Chemical energy• Stored in carbohydrates and other organic compounds• Used for cellular activity• Released through the process of respiration• Mitochondria is the organelle that releases the energy• This energy is stored in a compound = ATP (adenosine triphosphate)
ATP – nucleotide and 2 phosphate groups. Loses a phosphate to release energy and becomes ADP.
Aerobic vs. anaerobic• Aerobic • Requires oxygen• cellular respiration• Produces a lot of energy
• Anaerobic • Does not require oxygen• Fermentation• Produces a little energy
Cellular respiration• Takes place in the mitochondria• C6H12O6 + 6O2 6 CO2 + 6 H20 + energy
Glycolysis Krebs Cycle (if oxygen is present)
Electron transport chain
Splits glucose molecule into pyruvic acidcytoplasmProduces 2 ATPOccurs in both aerobic and anaerobic respiration
Also known as citric acid cycleTakes place in mitochondriaBreaks down pyruvic acid into carbon dioxide and ATP
High energy electrons from Krebs cycle to convert ADP to ATPTakes place in mitochondria
Together produce 36 ATP molecules = total of 38 ATP
Lactic Acid Fermentation Alcoholic FermentationConverts pyruvic acid into lactic acidYogurt and cheeseMuscles during strenuous excerise
Convert pyruvic acid into ethyl alcoholWine, beer, bread
Both processes are anaerobic respiration
Lesson 13: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Photosynthesis•RAW materials: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen•Use sunlight for energy•Carbon dioxide + water + glucose + oxygen
• Takes place in the chloroplast
Lesson 14: Biogeochemical Cycles
4 systems that make up earth• Land• Air• Water• And organisms
• These processes can be altered by human activities or by natural events
Biogeochemical cycles and Reservoirs• Biogeochemical cycles• Connection between livings things and Earth’s systems• Involve the movements of organic and inorganic chemicals through the
lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
• Reservoirs• Places where various chemicals are stored and from which they flow and are
recycled• Carbon from rocks, as gas in atmosphere, and dissolved in water in tissues
4 main processes of the water cycleEvaporation Transpiration Condensation Precipitation
Water changing from liquid to a gas
Movement of water from plants into the air from the openings in their leaves
Water vapor turns to liquid
Water that falls back to earth into bodies of water, land to be absorbed or flow off as runoff to resevoirs
Altered water cycle: impact on environment• create dams which displace plants and animals which lived there, they
can no longer reach their breeding grounds• Irrigation• Climate change: increase in global temperatures change the patterns
of precipitation and evaporation
Nitrogen cycle – continuous movement of nitrogen through each of Earth’s systems• 78% of Earth’s atmosphere• Bacteria plays a critical role in the nitrogen cycle. Since most living
things cannot use it directly, bacteria convert the nitrogen gas to ammonia and nitrates which can be used.• Used to make proteins• Overplanting of crops uses up the nitrogen in the soil, clear-cutting of
forest expose soil to erosion carrying away nitrogen-rich soil, artificial fertilizers run off into nearby bodies of water causing an overgrowth of algae (algal blooms) which in turn uses up oxygen and kills off the organisms that lived in this ecosystem
Carbon-oxygen cycle: two cycles that are studied together between atmosphere and living things. • Includes photosynthesis and cellular respiration• Oxygen is used to burn fuel
• death and decomposition of living things forms fossil fuels which store large amounts of carbon
• Effects: combination of forest destruction and burning of fossil fuels increases the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. As a result, there is an increase in temperature all over the planet.