Energy In Biomass

Question 0

What does a pyramid of biomass represent?

Answer 0

A mass of organisms at each stage in a good chain

Question 1

What Is biomass

Answer 1

The mass of a living material in plants and animals

Question 2

What do green plants transfer

Answer 2

Solar (light) energy to chemical energy which is then passed through the food chain

Question 3

What’s the main source of energy for living organisms

Answer 3

Radiation from the sun

Question 4

What captures light energy for photosynthesis

Answer 4

Green plants and Algae

Question 5

Why is not all the energy taken on by an organism used for growth?

Answer 5

Because not all food can be digested so energy is stored in faeces or a urea in urine. Used for respiration when the organism moves & to keep a constant temp

Question 6

What happens to most of the energy used for respiration

Answer 6

Ta eventually transferred to the surroundings

Question 7

What are sankey diagrams used to show?

Answer 7

The energy intake and the energy use or transfer in an animal

Question 8

What do all organisms need? And if they didn’t realise them, they would run out

Answer 8

Nutrients

Question 9

What starts the process of decay by eating dead animals or plants and producing waste materials

Answer 9

Detritus feeders (such as some worms)

Question 10

What do decay organisms do

Answer 10

Real down the waste of dead plants and animals

Question 11

When is decay quicker

Answer 11

When the conditions are warm, moist and aerobic conditions

Question 12

What are decay organisms? And what do most of them need?

Answer 12

Microorganisms (Bactria and fungi) most need oxygen

Question 13

All the materials from waste and dead organisms are..

Answer 13

Recycled, returning nutrients to the soil

Question 14

How can humans recycle waste ?

Answer 14

In sewage treatment plants and compost heaps

Question 15

What does the recycling of carbon consist of?

Answer 15

Photosynthesis and respiration

Question 16

What does photosynthesis do?

Answer 16

Removes carbon from the at atmosphere

Question 17

Green plants and animals respire which..

Answer 17

Returns carbon to the atmosphere

Question 18

Animals eat green plants which means what

Answer 18

Carbon build up in their bodies

Question 19

Wen plants or animals die, or produce waste, what do microorganisms realise

Answer 19

Co2 back into the atmosphere through respiration

Question 20

What does a stable community mean

Answer 20

It recycles all nutria a it’s taken up

Question 21

The constant cycling of carbon in nature is called?

Answer 21

The carbon cycle

Question 22

What’s combustion

Answer 22

Te process of burning ( fossil)

Question 23

What contains organic waste?

Answer 23

Waste vegetables and peelings from the kitchen, or grass cuttings & clippings from trees - they can be recycled

Question 24

What’s the most efficient methods of composting organic waste?

Answer 24

Allow the waste to be mixed with oxygen and moisture - this allows energy to escape by heating the surroundings

Question 25

How can gardeners speed up the process of composters

Answer 25

Adding worms and layers of grander soil

Question 26

How to councils help compost

Answer 26

Councils collect garden waste and use shredders and large bins to compost the material