1. 1 Ecosystems- Matter and Energy

2. 2 Primary Production http://www.bigelow.org/foodweb/chemosynthesis.jpg

3. 3 Visualizing Matter & Energy There are a variety of diagrams that help us visualize how energy, biomass, matter, and even number of organisms interact in a particular community or ecosystem. It is important that you look carefully at the diagrams and understand what it says about that ecosystem in terms of matter and/or energy.

4. 4 Primary Production made by Primary Producers Gross primary productivity is the total amount of energy that producers convert to chemical energy in organic molecules per unit of time. Then the plant must use some energy to supports its own processes with cellular respiration such as growth, opening and closing it’s stomata, etc. What is left over in that same amount of time is net primary productivity which is the energy available to be used by another organism.

5. Primary Production 5

6. Net Product Pyramid 6

7. Trophic Level Human Population 7

8. I think this slide should go up with the other pyramid slides even though it’s about populations 8 Biomass Pyramids

9. Pyramid of Numbers 9

11. Energy Transformation 11

12. Biogeochemical Cycle 12

13. Nitrogen Cycle 13

14. Phosphorus Cycle 14

15. Water Cycle 15

16. Carbon Cycle 16

17. Nutrient Cycling 17

18. Aquatic Biome Distribution 18

19. Lake Stratification 19

20. Zonation 20 Marine Zonation Lake Zonation

21. Freshwater 21

22. Wetlands & Estuaries 22 Transitional Zones between freshwater and marine. This water tends to be a mix of both depending on its geographic location. The water is often referred to as brackish

23. Tide Zone 23 Coral Reef Benthos Marine Biomes Black Smoker

24. Terrestrial Biomes 24

25. Tropical Rain Forest 25

26. Savanna 26

27. Desert 27

28. Chaparral- also called Scrubland 28

29. Temperate Grasslands 29

30. Temperate Forest 30

31. Taiga Also called Coniferous or Boreal Forest 1. precipitation usually snow 2. conifers like spruce, fir, hemlock 3. soil acidic and forms slowly 31

32. Tundra 32

33. Biosphere 33

34. What happens when a cycle is out of balance? 34 Cycles can have an anthropogenic (man-made) or a non- anthropogenic (natural phenomena) impact that causes a cycle to become unbalanced. Additionally, this may just be the natural state of that ecosystem as a consequence of the availability of nutrients. Two examples involving imbalanced freshwater habitats include: Oligotrophic waters- low primary productivity Eutrophic waters- high primary productivity

35. Eutrophic 35 Oligotrophic Lake

36. Eutrophication- The Algal Bloom 36