IB ESS SL 2.2.7 Heat Generation Questions

Practise identifying respiration as a heat-generating energy transformation and tracing heat transferred from living organisms to the surroundings in ecosystem diagrams.

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identify respiration as the process responsible for heat loss in ecosystem energy-flow and productivity diagrams

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Figure:Example of a lake ecosystem

Figure: Example of a lake ecosystem below shows an example of a lake ecosystem.

Rooting flowering plants: producers

Identify one way in which energy may leave this ecosystem.

Birds: secondary and tertiary consumer eg kingfisher

Floating plants: producers eg lilies, water fern

Frog: secondary consumer

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