Bao To Assignment 4 Week 9 An ecosystem is comprised of living organisms together with their surrounding environment. It consists of both the biotic and biotic constituents. The interrelation between living organisms and their environment forms an ecosystem. The biotic constituents found in the local ecosystem include; water, minerals, soil and other nonliving constituents such as sunlight and climate. The living part of the ecosystem is referred to as biotic.
Natural Ecosystems are very beneficial. Discuss the anthropogenic impact on ecosystems and biodiversity and the need to maintain its integrity. A natural ecosystem is complex set of relationships among the living resources, habitats, and residents of an area. It includes plants, trees, animals, soil, and people. Ecosystems vary in size and the elements that make them up, but each is a functioning unit of nature.
More generally, organisms that feed on autotrophs in general are known as primary consumers. d) A consumer is a person or group of people that are the final users of products and or services generated within a social system. e) Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. f) Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. g) biological environment includes the influence of all biological factors such as warmth, moisture and humidity, but also the plant ecosystem in which the animal lives and the associated populations of vertebrates and invertebrates that may compete for food and space, and may also act as reservoirs for infectious
(c) An ecosystem consists of a community of organisms and its physical environment, and a community is made up of many different populations of organisms. (d) An ecosystem consists of a population of organisms and its physical environment, and a population is made up of many different communities of organisms. 4. The algae at the beginning of the food chain in Figure 3–1 are (1 point) consumers. decomposers.
9. If a person were to place a marine fish into a fresh water lake, water would diffuse: a. up its concentration gradient and enter the fish. b. down its concentration gradient and enter the fish. c. down its concentration gradient and exit the fish. d. up its concentration gradient and exit the fish.
Both of these affect virtually every aspect of human life. The physical environment is the more obvious of the two environments and is incredibly influential on everyday life. Plants photosynthesize giving us oxygen which is essential for survival. Animals provide food and clothing for us to eat and wear. Buildings provide shelter and places to work, sleep and socialize.
Organic meaning from living organisms, having properties associated with living organisms, resembling a living organism in organization or development or interconnected. This is what makes plants the organic process of receiving light and the compounds they produce making them so unique and helpful to our environment
A landscape is defined as “geographical areas or properties uniquely representing the combined work of nature and of man”. However, there are three different types of landscapes: designed landscapes, vernacular landscapes and ethnographic landscapes. Due to the significant values that cultural landscapes provides to people across the world, it is extremely important to preserve and respectfully treat it. It is important to preserve and treat cultural landscapes for “change and continuity”, “historical significance” and “integrity and physical conditions”. Change and continuity is essential for cultural landscapes.
The investigation is to examine symbiotic relationships between algae and the abiotic factor in relation to water PH levels. Generally speaking Algae is aquatic, meaning it grows in water, although some live on the creek bank or on top soil. In this investigation the main focus is aquatic algae. The soils that surrounded the creek banks PH was examined and was compared to the PH of the creek water of Priors creek. The PH is directly related to the algae consisting in the water.
[1] Since first-law energy is always conserved, it is evident that free energy is an expendable, second-law kind of energy that can perform work within finite amounts of time. Several free energy functions may be formulated based on system criteria. Free energy functions are Legendre transformations of the internal energy. For processes involving a system at constant pressure p and temperature T, the Gibbs free energy is the most useful because, in addition to subsuming any entropy change due merely to heat, it does the same for the pdV work needed to "make space for additional molecules" produced by various processes. (Hence its utility to solution-phase chemists, including biochemists.)