Biology B4 (1)

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  • Created on: 29-12-19 15:04

The carbon cycle

materials are constantly recycled in an ecosystem 

an ecosystem is all the organisms living in an area, as well as the non-living conditions e.g. soil quality and availibility of water 

materials are recyeled through both abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem.

abiotic=non-living and biotic= living

living things are made up of elements they take from the environment. e.g. plants take in carbon, hydrogen,oxygen and nitorigen ext

they turn up these elements into the complex compounds that amke up living organisms. these are taken in by animals when they eat the plants 

the elements are recycled thy return to the environemnt though waste proucts or when organisms die, ready to be used up by new plants and put back…

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