Evidence: Element Cycle- K, or potassium, is essential to plant yields. K is naturally found in the ground, it is then mined and put into fertilizer which then goes onto plants and the plants benefit from this by having increased yields. A way most animals get their source of potassium is by eating plants with K in them. Kind of like how humans eat bananas. Human Impact- With the increase in farming over the last 300 years, the potassium cycle has been happening a lot more and is a lot more frequent now than 300 years ago. Connected to Other Cycles- Another element way overused in fertilizers is phosphorus, which is one way that it connects to potassium. Trophic Levels- In a food web there are the producers, for example, fruit, trees, fungi, and shrubs. Those are the structures of an ecosystem and a food web. On the next level, there is the consumers, this level is made up of animals that eat producers. The next level is primary, these animals are made up of omnivores and herbivores meaning that some only eat plants and some dabble in a bit of both (meat and plants) then there is the secondary level made up of carnos, (only eat meat). Then the next level is tertiary, which are the super carnos that are a step up from normal carnivores. Then finally there are the apex predators which are the top dogs and nothing eats them. Prairie- In a prairie. A lot goes on, to start. For example, there is a wild rose, which is eaten by a white-tailed jackrabbit then that will be eaten by either a carnivore or an omnivore. But in the end, everything will end up dying and decomposers will break it all down and the cycle will happen again. Bioaccumulation/ Biomagnification- Bioaccumulation is when over time toxic metals and heavy metals build up in an ecosystem. With each trophic level the amount of bioaccumulation increases.
Connection-In Minecraft, players gather various resources from the environment such as wood, stone, and ores. These resources can be used to craft tools, weapons, and structures. Similarly, in the conservation of matter and energy, resources are neither created nor destroyed but rather transformed from one form to another.
