The correct answer for both blanks is "Sodium".
Sodium ions are necessary in small quantities for some sorts of flora, but sodium as a nutrient is extra usually wanted in large quantities by using animals, due to their use of it for era of nerve impulses and for upkeep of electrolyte balance and fluid stability. In animals, sodium ions are vital for the aforementioned capabilities and for coronary heart hobby and sure metabolic functions.
These energy exchanges are not changes in kinetic energy. They are changes in bonding energy between the molecules. "If heat is coming into a substance during a phase change, then this energy is used to break the bonds between the molecules of the substance. The example we will use here is ice melting into water.
Answer:
The correct answer is option b. "Guppy color patterns would change; guppies would produce fewer but larger offspring; the nitrogen excretion rate would increase and the rate of growth of primary producers such as algae would increase".
Explanation:
The Trinidadian guppy is a species of fish with the scientific name <em>Poecilia reticulata</em>. Just like almost all species, its population is regulated for multiple factors, one of them being the presence of predators. The removal of Trinidadian guppy predators would result in multiple consequences:
- Guppy color patterns would change. The fish have a complex coloration determined largely by predation avoidance.
- Guppies would produce fewer but larger offspring. This adaptation has been proved in an experiment at which the fish was introduced one a low predation environment. The report proved that evolution can take place in less than 10 years.
- The nitrogen excretion rate would increase. It has been reported that predation reduce Trinidadian guppy nitrogen excretion by 40%. Removing the predators will case the nitrogen excretion rate to increase due to an increase in the fish food intake.
- The rate of growth of primary producers such as algae would increase. This is an effect of the increase of nitrogen excretion rate, which benefits algae population to growth.
The group of organisms that occupy the second trophic level of an ecosystem is the herbivores
I would say the correct answer is B: <span>People tend to overuse or degrade shared resources. It is often not clear how much exploitative pressure a natural resource can sustain before the exploitation becomes unsustainable. So for example, various industries may dispose of waste into a river. The river has a capacity to absorb and clean a certain amount of effluent by natural degradation systems. However, at some critical mass of pollutants, these natural processes are no longer able to function properly, and the river becomes very polluted to a point were the resource cannot be utilised. Monitoring can help to gauge at which point a common resources is becoming unacceptably degraded, and this can guide policy.</span>
