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The Earth Provides Enough To Satisfy Every Person's Need But Not Every Person's Greed"
The Earth Provides Enough To Satisfy Every Person's Need But Not Every Person's Greed"
Society in General
SOCIETAL PYRAMID
Industrial Usage
Societal Usage
Its James
Lovelock in 1972 Created the
“Gaia Theory” and continued the
environmental awareness.
The science that deals with our eco system is
Ecology.
Berry commoner explains about ecology as
“The 1st law of ecology is that everything is
related to everything else”
According to him an ecosystem can be viewed
as a biotic assemblage of plants, animals,
microbes taken together with their physico-
chemical environment.
The term ecosystem was coined in 1935 by
the British ecologist Sir Arthur George
Tansley, who described natural systems in
“constant interchange among their living
and nonliving parts”
External External
world world
Mobilizers
Monuments
collapsing
Biome can be defined as various similar
eco systems throughout the world
together.
Is a large area with similar flora, fauna
and the micro organisms.
The major biomes are mountains, forests,
marine/ island, deserts, grassland,
savannah etc.,
So clearly a biome consists of many eco
systems which have same features but not
the vice-versa.
Now energy flow in any biome/ eco system
can be shown as
Producers Consumers
SUN
Inorganic
Nutrient pool Decomposers
Energy flows through the eco system in
the form of C-C bonds.
Ex:
Grass- Grasshopper- Mouse- Snake- Hawk
The 3 main basic categories:
Higher
carnivo
rous
Carnivorous
Primary consumers
Bacteria/
algae/producers