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• Trophic pyramid


  • Producers get the highest energy
  • As it goes up to the apex predator, the energy is lowest
• Producers


  • Plants
• Consumers


  • Animals
• Carnivores


  • Meat
• Herbivores


  • Plants
• Scavengers


  • Dead animals
• Detritivores


  • Dung, feces
• Nitrogen cycle


  Needs bacteria
• Water cycle


  Affected by deforestation
• HIPPO Effect


  Cause of ecological problems
• Biodiversity


  • Important for ecosystem sustainability
  • Important for food
  • Important for medicine
• Pollution sources


  • Emissions from vehicles
  • Emissions from factories
• Climate change


  Caused by pollution and greenhouse gas effect
• Causes of biodiversity loss

  • Habitat destruction
  • Climate change
  • Human actions
  • Pollution
• Greenhouse effect


  Caused by gases accumulated in the atmosphere that trap heat from the sun
• Humans cannot live without nature, but nature can thrive without humans
• Taxonomic groups


  • Mammalia (Class of humans and other mammals)
  • Primates (Order of humans, monkeys, and apes)
• Biomes


  • Terrestrial regions affected by temperature and rainfall
• Freshwater ecosystem


  Nourishes and distributes biomes with nutrients
• Marine environments


  Higher salt concentration and the largest ecosystems
• Energy flow


  Transfer of energy from one organism to another