ERTH 2403 Final: Oceanography Final Exam notes

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: ERTH 2403
• Professor: Hafida El Bilali

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Living systems - organism cannot exist without energy cannot create energy can transform one kind to another can utilize simply molecular to form complex systems. Some need sunlight, or use chemical reactions and what not. Sources of energy: sunlight, photosynthesis - chemical energy, earth"s internal heat, chemosynthesis - chemical energy, which is energy converted to food, sunlight! Producers use light energy to make food. (photo-synthesizers) Then energy of movement, waste heat and entropy goes to space. This c6h12o6 is used for: growth, repair, movement, reproduction, breakdown process yields heat energy to space, earth"s internal heat, energy stored by chemosynthesis, energy = oxidation of h2s, no light required. = grams of carbon bound in organic matter per square meter of ocean surface per year. Diatom is phytoplankton which flats and they have chlorophyll which allows for photosynthesis. Benthic - bottom zones shelf bathyal - slope abyssal hadal - trench. By light: refer to photic and aphotic zones.