Understanding chemosynthesis helps me to explain how organisms can produce their own food in the absence of sunlight.
- Models help me to better understand Complex systems by providing a simplified representation of the system.
- A mathematical model of a food web helps me to better understand the relationships between different organisms in an ecosystem and how energy and matter flow through the system.
What is chemosynthesis?
Understanding chemosynthesis helps one to explain alternative pathways for energy production in ecosystems, expanding my knowledge beyond the more commonly discussed photosynthesis.
So, A mathematical model of a food web helps one to better understand the quantitative aspects of ecosystem dynamics, allowing me to analyze the relative contributions of different species and trophic levels.
See text belowRead through the list of topics from this unit.
Make sure that you feel confident about each of them before taking the unit test. If there are any topics that you forget or think you need to practice, go back and review those lessons now.identify claims about the cycling of matter and flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem
• describe how claims about the cycling of matter and flow of energy among organisms in an ecosystem can be expressed as a mathematical relationship
• use the mathematical representation of a food web to describe the transfer of matter and flow of energy between organisms and their environmentuse the mathematical representation of a food web to identify the relative proportion of organisms at each trophic level
• use the mathematical representation of a food web to account for the energy not transferred to higher trophic levels
• describe the inefficiencies in the transfer of matter and energy
• explain how energy from
photosynthesis and respiration drives the cycling of matter and flow of energy under aerobic or anaerobic conditions within an ecosystemWrite a reflection about your learning in this unit. Your reflection should be at least 3 sentences. Use the following sentence starters as a guide.
• Understanding chemosynthesis helps me to explain...
• Models help me to better understand...
• A mathematical model of a food web helps me to better understand...