Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Lesson 15: Energy flows

Hi,

These slides cover an important part of express classes' syllabus. The coverage includes:
  • flow of energy and minerals through the environment
  • producers carry out photosynthesis to convert light energy into chemical energy
  • glucose is sunlight energy in the form of a molecule
  • primary consumers in a food chain, examples
  • secondary consumers in a food chain, examples
  • biomass, respiration, wastes
  • energy efficiencies of consumers
  • trophic levels
  • decomposers, examples, functions in recycling minerals
  • examples of food webs -marine, woodlands
  • loss of biomass in food chains due to respiration and wastes
  • pyramid of biomass
  • pyramid of energy
  • pyramid of numbers
  • pesticides, toxic chemicals, bio-accumulations
  • predator-prey cycles
  • carbon cycle
  • carbon dioxide and greenhouse effect
  • effects of global warming
  • very good short questions on topic




Cheers

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