Questions:
Energy Budgets in Ecosystems
Understanding the role of energy in biology.
Please address the following concepts:
1) Relating energy concepts to living things.
2) Discuss why energy is not recycled in an environment and why an ecosystem can only support a finite population of species.
3) Discuss our excessive consumption of energy and its implications upon future generations.
4) Use historical evidence to draw conclusions regarding the affect(s) our excessive energy consumption has upon how species adapt, survive (or not) and how this affects their evolution.