BIOL 111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Carrying Capacity, Eastern Cottontail, Chitin

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Lecture 1: discuss the significance of photosynthesis in terms of carbon in the environment. Plants absorb light energy to combine atmospheric co2 and water h2o to form carbohydrates which then fuel all other trophic levels through photosynthesis: describe the current causes of global climate change. Global warming causing oceans to heat up, which releases more of the ghg water vapour into the atmosphere causing further heating. Carbon is produced through cellular respiration in organisms, and removed through photosynthesis. Carbon from the atmosphere diffuses into the ocean and becomes carbonate/bicarbonate, where it enters marine food webs, and from dying marine organisms is compressed into shells and rocks. Upheaval over long time periods causes the carbon stored in sediment/rocks/fossils to be transferred onto the land. The carbon on the land can be uptaken by land organisms and enter the food webs there, or it can leach back into the ocean.

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