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Ecology, Sunlight, Plants, Sublimation, Lightning - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Energy is not cyclic
  - - - Light energy transformed
        
        Chemical energy of photosynthesis
        
        Chemical energy of cell respiration
        
        Heat energy
  - - - Autotrophic organisms
        
        Those capable of synthesizing their own food from inorganic molecules
        
        Photoautotrophs
        
        Plants and algae
        
        Chemoautotrphs
        
        bacteria
        
        Heterotrophic organisms
        
        Consumers
        
        They need to consume food from the environment, incapable of synthesizing their own food
        
        Herbivores
        
        Carnivores
        
        Omnivores
        
        Decomposers
        
        Feeds on dead organisms
        
        Performing a function, which is returning essential nutrients back to the ecosystem
        
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        Producers
- - - - Reservoirs
        
        Atmosphere
        
        Fossil fuels
        
        animal and plant respiration
        
        Glucose (photosytnhesis
      - Process
        
        Factory emissions
        
        Atmosphere
        
        Photosynthesis
        
        Decay of organisms
        
        Death of organisms
        
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        Organic carbon
        
        Animals
        
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  - - - Reservoirs
        
        Rain
        
        Clouds
        
        Rivers
        
        Ocean
        
        Living organisms
        
        Lakes
      - Process
        
        Exaporation (lake)
        
        Condensation
        
        Transportation (clouds)
        
        Precipitation
        
        deposition
        
        snowmelt runoff
        
        surface flow
        
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        Percolation
        
        Underground lakes
        
        Plant uptake
        
        Transpiration (plants)
        
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        Groundwater flow
        
        Evaporation (ocean)
        
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        Water get to underwater lakes
        
        Infiltration
        
        Water in the soil
  - - - our bodies and plants have no way to convert N2 into a usable form
        
        Nitrogen fixing bacteria present in soil or plant roots are capable of changing nitrogen to usable solid nitrogen compounds
    - - Nitrites (NO2)
        
        Nitrifying bacteria
        
        Nitrates (NO3)
        
        Assimilation
        
        Plants
        
        Decomposers
        
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        Animals
        
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        Dentrifying bacteria
        
        Atmospheric nitrogen (N2)
        
        Nitrogen-fixing bacteria living in roots
        
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      - Marine ecosystem
        
        Fertilizers
        
        Atmosphere
        
        Marine food webs
        
        Nitrogenous sediments fall on the ocean floor
        
        Nitrification by bacteria to NO3 and NO2
        
        Dentrification by bacteria to N2
        
        Runoffs
    - - Atmosphere
      - Soil
      - living beings
    - - Nitrogen is often the limiting nutrient, thus limits the growth of organisms or populations
        
        Adding more will increase the growth
        
        Fertilizers
        
        Eutrophication
        
        This process is the destruction of an aquatic ecosystem
        
        Caused by the excess of nitrogen or phosphorus
        
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        Microalgae starts growing exponentially because of the ferilizer, blocking the sunlight
        
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  - - - It is found in humans and other organisms
        
        DNA and ATP and part of cell membranes
    - - This cycle is slow
        
        Phosphate ion is the most common in nature
        
        often the limiting nutrient in aquatic ecosystems
        
        this cycle has no gas phase
    - - Phosphorus move in the form of dust and sea spray to the surface
        
        Weathering of rocks with high phosphate ion gets it into the soil
        
        Phosphate taken up by producers
        
        consumption
        
        decomposers
        
        phosphate return to water
        
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        Runoff to water
        
        Plankton
        
        Decomposition
        
        Dissolved phosphate ion
        
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- - - - Trophic web shows the connections of all organisms in an ecosystem
        
        Trophic chain, shows one line
  - - - only a part of ingested food, becomes part of the body
        
        The rest is dissipated in the form of heat
        
        Energy loss isn't the correct term because of the law of conservation of energy
        
        though in the perspective of the consumer you could consider this as a loss of energy
      - Carnivores feed on herbivores
        
        Energy dissipated as heat or transferred to decomposers
        
        Only about 10% of energy assimilated is transferred to the next trophic level
        
        Remaining 90% is lost as heat or used in metabolic activities
        
        Energy Pyramid
        
        Shows the enrgy transferred from each trophic level to the next one
        
        Always represented with the widest base, large number of producers, and smaller numbers of consumers
        
        Normal pyramid always
        
        Biomass pyramid
        
        It measures the amount of biomass in each trophic level
        
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        Number pyramid
        
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- - - - The longer the species live, the higher the contaminant levels will get
        
        Toxins, pesticides, elements (mercury), etc.
        
        It occurs within a single organism
  - - - Because the Shrimps for example has a low amount of toxins, the fish eats a lot of Shrimps, and gets a higher level of toxins, and so on
        
        Occurs across trophic levels
        
        Both can occur in almost all types of ecosystems