Summary: Conserving and maintaining the quality and sustainability of the environment requires scientific understanding of interactions within, the cycling of matter and the flow of energy through ecosystems.
Ecosystems
“recall that ecosystems consist of communities of interdependent organisms and abiotic components of the environment”
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Matter Cycle
“outline using examples how matter is cycled through ecosystems such as nitrogen”
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Energy Flow
“describe how energy flows through ecosystems, including input and output through food webs”
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Changes to Population and Communities
“analyse how changes in some biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem affect populations and/or communities”
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Sustainable Ecosystems
“assess ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural practices and knowledge of the environment contribute to the conservation and management of sustainable ecosystems”
“evaluate some examples in ecosystems, of strategies used to balance conserving, protecting and maintaining the quality and sustainability of the environment with human activities and needs”
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*Will continue adding/refining ideas here over time.
