IBDP WORKSHEET/HANDOUT -2022-23

The Gaudium School,Kollur

Subject & ESS (SL) Student Name

Level: Revision Worksheet
Topic 2.2

Date Given: 21/11/22 Submission Date:

ATL Skill Knowledge and understanding, Critical Thinking, Communication

Assessed:

IB Learner Thinker, Communicator

Profile
identified:

Key concepts The interactions of species with their environment result in energy and
covered: nutrient flow.
The feeding relationships in a system can be modelled using food chains,
food webs, and ecological pyramids

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Student Reflection:

Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1. Define Respiration and photosynthesis.

2. Respiration releases energy. State the form of energy that this eventually become.

3.Explain how the transfers of energy through photosynthesis supports the First and 2 nd laws of
thermodynamics.

4. Compare and Contrast between pyramid of biomass and pyramid of productivity.

5. State the units for storages of biomass as represented in pyramid of biomass and state the
units used or energy flow as represented in pyramids of productivity.

6. Draw ecological pyramids to represent the following data.

7. Define Bioaccumulation and biomagnification.

8. Explain how the emission of elemental and methyle mercury into Minamata bay resulted in
local people suffering from mercury poisoning.

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9. According to a study in long Island Estuary, concentrations of less than 0.1 ppm of DDT in
plankton lead to concentrations of upto 25 ppm of sea birds. (Ehrlich et.al.1998) Explain why the
concentration is notably higher amongst the sea birds.

10. In sufficient amounts, DDT affects the hardness of the bird shell (which often results in the
shell breaking and the offspring dying before hatching at an appropriate time). Draw a diagram
to show how DDT run off from farmland can result in egg thinning in sea-gulls.

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