As matter is recycled it loses some of its integrity so we need to be careful when we dispose of goods. Natural resources are unlimited because they are used and reused by living organisms. All of these are implications of the law of conservation of matter. The first law of thermodynamics and the law of conservation of matter are similar in that A. The first law of thermodynamics and the law of conservation of matter are not similar.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation. What implication s does the second law of thermodynamics have for biological systems? Systems cannot create energy because energy is neither created nor destroyed.
With each transformation, less available energy is available to do work so older systems have less energy. A constant supply of energy is necessary for maintenance of biological systems. Energy is unlimited because it is used and reused by living organisms. None of these is an implication of the second law of thermodynamics. Photosynthesis produces sugars from A. The process of photosynthesis and cellular respiration are similar in that they both A.
All members of a species that live in the same area at the same time make up a an A. A biological community consists of all A. Energy enters a system as sunlight and a producer is able to produce 10 kilograms of tissue. If eaten, the producer would produce about kilograms of consumer tissue that would provide about kilograms of tissue for a secondary consumer. In the northern temperate zone this means the end of the spring term or the beginning of the fall term.
Similarly, the forest ecology labs are probably easiest to run when the leaves are on the trees for identification purposes. The labs approach the world from an ecological perspective and as a collection attempt to teach the student about many aspects of the environment, including soil health, stream health, forest health, clean air, as well as agricultural and development issues.
A set of four or five questions follows each lab. Sometimes these questions are asked progressively throughout the lab, as in the worm farming lab. Most can be done at the end of class and turned in that day or for homework and turned in the following week. The teacher is also free to ask students to complete a scientific paper based on any of the labs.
All of the labs except for the Sewage Treatment Plant and Organic Farm field trips are experimental in nature and a scientific paper could easily work for this. Stream Ecology This lab can be done at a local stream either on or near campus. The protocol is part of the protocol used in the Adopt-A-Stream program, and long term data could be gathered and the stream adopted by the class if it will be repeated.
Questions 1. The water quality rating will depend on the overall health of the stream and also the season in which sampling was conducted. Having an understanding of the upstream land uses residential, agricultural, etc will be helpful for understanding the results. Macroinvertrates are likely found in leaf packs and under rocks because they have more shelter there. Leaf packs provide both food and shelter. If a stream has a healthy riparian zone it may be quite healthy despite a great deal of fertilizer use in the watershed upstream.
Farms are more likely to have some negative effects downstream if animals are able to access the stream. Results may vary based on season due to different temperatures and degrees of land use. Also, people are less likely to have started fertilizing their lawns by late spring to the same degree they will have in early fall. A good hypothesis might incorporate the factors discussed above such as the season in which sampling occurred, upstream land uses in the watershed, and degree of riparian vegetation present.
Measuring Diversity This lab is meant to be very flexible and can be conducted in the ecosystem of choice of the teacher. For example, a sampling of the leaf litter in a forest could be done, a stand of trees or even an aquatic ecosystem. Calculations can be done in class if students bring a calculator, at home, or in the lab on an Excel Questions 1.
The answer to question one will depend on the data gathered in class. The answer to question two will depend on the data gathered in class. The relative abundance measure is used to calculate the Index of Diversity.
Students may answer that the highest diversity in the world is found in the rainforest or in coral reefs such as the Great Barrier Reef. Both are true in a way. For rainforests high diversity is attributed to the great deal of sunlight and rain that these types of forests receive, coupled with the tens of thousands of years, or longer, that these ecosystems have been evolving.
Cunningham 8e Answers to Practice Quizzes Chapter 1 1. Global populations are rising, but in the future they should stabilize, although at what level and when depends on fertility changes. Fertility rates are falling everywhere, and the global average has declined from 5 to less than 2. Ecological services include many factors and resources we rely on.
Climate regulation, water filtration, and food provision are a few examples. A hypothesis is a testable, provisional explanation. A scientific theory is an explanation supported by a large body of empirical evidence and regarded by a majority of scientists as likely to be correct.
The scientific method involves 1 identifying a question, 2 forming a testable hypothesis, 3 collecting data, 4 interpreting results, 5 reporting results for peer review, 6 publishing findings. See figure 1. Probability is a measure of how likely something is to occur. An example is flipping a coin. Scientists try to reserve judgment because they know that better evidence could emerge from future tests or evidences. Thus they try to be skeptical of evidence and to look for solid, unbiased evidence.
This is also why tests require replication: one test result could be an accident or an outlier. Many tests are better than a few. Utilitarian conservation is pragmatic, efficient resource use for the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time.
Gifford Pinchot and Teddy Roosevelt were leaders in this movement. Biocentric preservation emphasizes the right of other organisms—and nature as a whole—to exist regardless of their usefulness to us.
John Muir was a leading proponent of this philosophy. Water is a critical resource because 1. In figure 1. The ratio of per capita income is about or a little less than for North America: East Asia. For North America:South Asia, the ratio is about or about The poorest people are often both the victims and agents of environmental degradation. Forced to meet short-term survival needs at the cost of long-term sustainability, they suffer most from environmental damage because they have few other options.
Sustainability is a search for ecological stability and human progress that can last over the long term. Chapter 2 1. Two primary nutrients that cause eutrophication are nitrogen N , and phosphorus P. Systems are networks of interactions among interdependent units or compartments as well as processes or flows that link those components.
A positive feedback loop enhances or accelerates a process and a state variable. A negative feedback inhibits or reverses a process or reduces a state variable.
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