The Energy Cycle Conner Rothe Rebecca Han Collin Chersi Sean Sharma.

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The Energy Cycle Conner Rothe Rebecca Han Collin Chersi Sean Sharma

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The Energy Cycle

Conner Rothe

Rebecca Han

Collin Chersi

Sean Sharma

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The Energy Flow Cycle

• The Energy Flow starts with solar energy from the sun captured by plant and turned into glucose through the process of photosynthesis by producers.

• The producers are then consumed by the first level of consumers. This is the start of the food chain/web.

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• The solar energy passes through the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and into the biosphere.

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• Trophic efficiencies generally range from 5% to 20%; but only 5% to 20% of primary producer biomass consumed is converted into new consumer biomass.

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Cycle Importance

• The energy cycle is important because it provides energy for animals and when they die, unused energy is recycled.

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Key Terms

• Solar radiation: radiant energy emitted by a sun as a result of its nuclear fusion reactions

• Dispersal: the act of scattering

• Migration: the act of going from one country, region, or place to another

• Erosion: the process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc.

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• Deposition: a natural accumulation or occurrence, especially the laying down of matter by a natural process.

• Longwave radiation: is the energy leaving the earth as infrared radiation at low energy

• Heat: the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.

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• Consumers: a heterotrophic organism that ingests other organisms or organic matter in a food chain.

• Decomposers: An organism, often a bacterium or fungus, that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, thus making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem.

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• Leaching: extraction of certain materials from a carrier into a liquid

• Trophic Efficency: the transfer of energy up trophic levels .

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Work Cited

• Text book pg. 56-66• http://www.managingwholes.com/eco-energy-

cycle.htm (Sept. 22)• http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~sabedon/

campbl54.htm (Sept. 23)• http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~sabedon/

campbl54_files/image005.gif (Sept.23)• http://www.dictionary.com (Sept. 23)