BALANCE IN NATURE

Nutrient Cycle and Energy Flow

WATER CYCLE

Water cycle is NATURAL CIRCULATION of water in the Earth. The continuous movement of water between the land going to the atmosphere, atmosphere back to land.

Processes of Water Cycle

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PRECIPITATION. A movement of water from the atmosphere to the Earth ( RAIN ). EVAPORATION. The movement of water in the form of water vapor from the Earth to atmosphere. TRANSPIRATION. The loss of water from plants due to evaporation. CONDENSATION. The process by which water vapor turns into droplets of water.

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ROLE OF LIVING THINGS IN THE WATER CYCLE

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PLANTS Plants takes water through their roots Plants takes off water from there leaves (stomata). ANIMALS Animals drinks water. It gives water through respiration. HUMAN Water is a basic ingredients of life.

CARBON OXYGEN CYCLE

Carbon Oxygen cycle is a process in which there is a exchange of gases. Human are releasing carbon in which plants used for photosynthesis.

THE 4 ROLES OF CARBON

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Carbon is a major building block in organisms as it is a comport of carbohydrates. CO2 enters in plant as a raw material for photosynthesis.

ROLES OF OXYGEN IN CARBON-OXYGEN CYCLE

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Oxygen is one of lifes major building block. Oxygen is the acceptor of hydrogen atoms in the respiration. Together with hydrogen atoms, oxygen is form into H2O during respiration. Oxygen enables heterotrophic cells to transform energy through oxidation.

THE MAJOR LIFE PROCESS IN CARBON-OXYGEN CYCLE

PHOTOSYNTHESIS. The process in which plants make their own food. RESPIRATION. The process of oxygen exchange to carbon dioxide.

ROLE OF LIVING THINGS IN THE CARBON-OXYGEN CYCLE

Plants utilize CO2 in the process of photosynthesis. Animals utilize O2 to break down food.

THE NITROGEN CYCLE

The nitrogen cycle is a circulation of vital chemical substances within an ecosystem. Nitrogen Cycle, natural cyclic process in the course of which atmospheric nitrogen enters the soil and becomes part of living organisms, before returning to the atmosphere.

PROCESS INVOLVE IN NITROGEN CYCLE

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Ammonification the process of releasing ammonia ( NH2 ) From decaying protein by means of bacteria action.

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Nitrification refers to the action of a group of solid bacteria, producing nitrates.

Denitrification carried out by denitrifying bacteria which breaks down ammonia, nitrates, nitrites. Nitrogen fixation process by which a certain bacteria in the soil of leguminous plants converts N2 into compounds that the plants use.

ROLE OF NITROGEN IN LIVING THINGS

Protein is made up of amino acid. Amino acid is made up of amino acid group. Amino acid group is made up of one atom of nitrogen and two atoms of hydrogen.

THE FLOW OF NITROGEN IN THE CYCLE

Gaseous nitrogen composes of 78% of our atmosphere in the form of a two-atom molecule. Plant cant use nitrogen directly as a nutrient. Nitrogen-fixation, bacteria can utilize in atmosphere. Nitrogen fixation, nitrogen from the air is converted onto nitrates. Plants absorb NO3 as a group of soil minerals.

Sulfur and phosphate are added from soil minerals Nitrogen is released from decaying proteins and combines with H2 to form ammonia, a process called ammonification. Nitrite, further acted upon chemically by other bacteria resulting in the formation of the more usable nitrates.

THE ROLE OF LIVING THINGS IN THE NITROGEN CYCLE

Pants play a key role in that they absorb simple nitrogen containing compounds from the soil or water incorporating these into complex compounds of life. Animals they become involve only when they eat plans, thus absorbing the protein.

Human to have an increase yield of agricultural plants, the large-scale of fixed N2 to enhance the soil to fertile. Human also input eutriphication process by which lakes or any freshwater in ecosystem slowly become shallow by the accumulation of dead plant material.

ENERGY FLOW IN THE ECOSYSTEM

FOOD CHAIN food chain is the most important bases of interaction among species in a community is food. food chain is the transfer of suns energy from producer to consumer as organisms feed on one another.

FOOD WEB

FOOD WEB each species has more than one than a predator, each of which in turn is prayed upon by more than one species. The food web is a intricate pattern formed, wherein there is an overlapping set of relationship.

TROPIC LEVEL

The tropic level are several feeding grouping which producers and the consumer in the ecosystem can be arranged. Each tropic level contain at any time a certain amount of living material composed of different kinds of organisms.

GROUP 2 MEMBERS
*GALI *CASTILLO

*FERNANDEZ
*AMPONG *BULANON

*CADURNIGARA
*CANTONES