The most recent project I completed in my biology class was to create a self-sustaining ecosystem, sealed inside of a jar. The purpose of the ecosystem was to demonstrate the different cycles, processes, and chains that matter and energy flow through. Through the unit, our class discussed food webs and pyramids, […]
Category: ADV Biology 9
The Life of a Carbon Atom
After creating an ecosystem in a jar (see My Ecosystem in a Jar), one of the final products I had to complete was composing a narrative entailing transformations that could happen to a carbon atom within my ecosystem. The story needed to include processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, consumption, defecation, and the water cycle. […]