Visualizing Environmental Science

5 How Ecosystems Work SOLVING LAKE WASHINGTON’S ECOLOGICAL IMBALANCE L ake Washington is a large, deep freshwater lake on the ea ...

102 CHAPTER 5 How Ecosystems Work Detritus feeders work together with microbial decompos- ers to destroy dead organisms and wast ...

97 150 200 250 100 50 0 1955 1960 1965 1970 Dissolved phosphorus(10 3 Kilograms per year) 1975 Ye a r Total dissolved phosphorus ...

The Flow of Energy Through Ecosystems 103 Simple food chains rarely occur in nature because few organisms eat just one kind of o ...

98 CHAPTER 5 How Ecosystems Work with one another in the wild to produce fertile off- spring; members of one species generally d ...

PROCESS DIAGRAM 104 CHAPTER 5 How Ecosystems Work Key 2 13 3 10 8 21 22 9 7 20 6 14 (^1516) 18 12 11 17 1 4 19 5 22 22 23 1 Pitc ...

What Is Ecology? 99 forest ecosystem and a pond ecosystem located adjacent to the forest. One possible connection between these ...

The Flow of Energy Through Ecosystems 105 Once an organism uses energy, it is lost as heat (recall the second law of thermodynam ...

100 CHAPTER 5 How Ecosystems Work Summarize how energy flows through a food web and transfers between trophic levels. Distingui ...

106 CHAPTER 5 How Ecosystems Work What is the first law of thermodynamics? the second? Why is a balanced ecosystem unlikely to ...

The Flow of Energy Through Ecosystems 101 plants absorb the radiant energy of the sun and convert it into the chemical energy co ...

The Cycling of Matter in Ecosystems 107 PROCESS DIAGRAM Air (CO 2 ) 775 Photosynthesis by land plants Dissolved CO 2 in water 38 ...

102 CHAPTER 5 How Ecosystems Work Detritus feeders work together with microbial decompos- ers to destroy dead organisms and wast ...

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The Flow of Energy Through Ecosystems 103 Simple food chains rarely occur in nature because few organisms eat just one kind of o ...

PROCESS DIAGRAM nitrogen is so stable that it does not readily combine with other elements. Atmospheric nitrogen must first be b ...

PROCESS DIAGRAM 104 CHAPTER 5 How Ecosystems Work Key 2 13 3 10 8 21 22 9 7 20 6 14 (^1516) 18 12 11 17 1 4 19 5 22 22 23 1 Pitc ...

The Flow of Energy Through Ecosystems 105 Once an organism uses energy, it is lost as heat (recall the second law of thermodynam ...

110 CHAPTER 5 How Ecosystems Work such as proteins. Animals assimilate nitrogen when they consume plants or other animals and co ...

106 CHAPTER 5 How Ecosystems Work What is the first law of thermodynamics? the second? Why is a balanced ecosystem unlikely to ...