CK12 Life Science

Figure 23.25: An example of an aquatic marine biome, pack ice. ( 24 ) The concept that the biosphere is itself a living organism ...

Figure 23.26: Biosphere 2, in Arizona, contains 3.15 acres of closed ecosystem and is a small-scale model of the biosphere. ( 21 ...

Where would you expect to find more biodiversity, in an equatorial rainforest, or in a southwestern desert? Explain why. Which ...

Points to Consider You now have a general idea of what a biome is and how the diversity of a biome is related to otherfactors; t ...

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Chapter 24 Ecosystem Dynamics 24.1 Lesson 24.1: Flow of Energy Lesson Objectives Explain where all the energy in an ecosystem u ...

Energy and Producers With just a few exceptions, all life on Earth depends on the sun’s energy for survival. The energy of the s ...

Figure 24.1: Producers include plants (a), algae (b), and diatoms, which are unicellular algae(c). ( 12 ) ...

Figure 24.2: Examples of consumers are caterpillars (herbivores) and hawks (carnivore). ( 3 ) ...

what would happen if there were no decomposers. Wastes and the remains of dead organisms would pile up and the nutrients within ...

Figure 24.3: Examples of decomposers are bacteria (a) and fungi (b). ( 1 ) http://www.ck12.org 864 ...

Figure 24.4: Food chain. This figure shows, for example, that the snake gets its energy from the rat, and the rat gets its energ ...

Figure 24.6: Food web in the Arctic Ocean. ( 9 ) is shown inFigure 6. Due to the energy loss in food chains, it takes many produ ...

Figure 24.7: As illustrated by this ecological pyramid, it takes a lot of phytoplankton to support the carnivores of the oceans. ...

What is the producer in the food chain? What is the herbivore in the food chain? What is the carnivore in the food chain? In a ...

herbivore A consumer of producers in a community; often organisms that eat plants. omnivore A consumer in a community that eat b ...

if the decomposers were somehow taken out of an ecosystem. The nutrients, such as carbon and nitrogen, in animal wastes and dead ...

Figure 24.8: The water cycle. Seehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cb3SIMRCIE& NR=1for an animation of the water cycle. ( 15 ) ...

Figure 24.9: The carbon cycle. ( 10 ) Figure 24.10: Human activities like burning gasoline in cars are contributing to a global ...