Sunday, August 21, 2011

Ecology: summary

Ecology can be divided into bodily processes, food webs and nutrient cycles. Nutrient cycles can further be divided into the Nitrogen cycle and the Carbon cycle. The nutrient cycles are basically cycles in which Nitrogen and carbon are recycled in different forms such as in photosynthesis and denitrifying bacteria. Food webs were taught in primary school, and hence, I feel that this topic was redundant, and more time should be spent on other topics, such as bodily processes. There were too few lessons on bodily processes, although we learnt useful information, such as the reason why food chains cannot be too long.
Overall, I felt that this was the least interesting of the three terms as it was very dry.
The test, like the one in term 2, was easy enough for many of the students to score well, but some questions will required some thinking.

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