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Photosynthesis + Food Chains + Cycles
Photosynthesis + Food Chains + Cycles
What is Photosynthesis?
Photosynthesis is the process where green plants make organic
food from carbon dioxide and water using sunlight.
Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplast. (Mainly in leaf cells)
Sunlight is absorbed by a green pigment called chlorophyll
found inside the chloroplast.
Oxygen is also produced during photosynthesis. It is released
into the environment where it can be used by other organisms
(including plants) for respiration.
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Importance of photosynthesis
Experiment
Food Chains
A food chain shows how energy passes from one organism to
another in the form of food.
In a food chain, an arrow points from the organism being eaten
to the organism doing the eating
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Aquatic Food
(Freshwater)
Producer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumer
Tertiary Consumer
Carbon Cycle
Carbon Cycle
Carbon cycle - the cycling of carbon through the environment and living
organisms.
Carbon is found in the atmosphere as Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Plants, animals and decomposers all release carbon dioxide which was
produced by Respiration
Plants absorb Carbon dioxide from the air to use in photosynthesis.
Plants & animals which have died millions of years ago form fossils (i.e.
fossilization). Fossils have carbon which can be used as a fuels for energy
(i.e. fossil fuel). e.g. crude oil
Carbon dioxide is also produce when we burn substances/fuel (i.e.
Combustion)
Nitrogen Cycle
Water Cycle
The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on,
above and below the surface of the Earth.
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Surface run off the water flowing over the earths surface
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