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    Decomposers like bacteria and fungi break down organic matter into inorganic nutrients that return to the beginning of the food chain, closing the nutrient cycle. However, energy flows in one direction through trophic levels and is lost at each level, preventing inverted energy pyramids. Intensive agriculture damages soil through heavy machinery crushing pores and reducing water and air retention. This harms root growth and soil organisms, starting a cycle where greater damage leads to more biodiversity loss as the soil ecosystem loses complexity.

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    Decomposers like bacteria and fungi break down organic matter into inorganic nutrients that return to the beginning of the food chain, closing the nutrient cycle. However, energy flows in one direction through trophic levels and is lost at each level, preventing inverted energy pyramids. Intensive agriculture damages soil through heavy machinery crushing pores and reducing water and air retention. This harms root growth and soil organisms, starting a cycle where greater damage leads to more biodiversity loss as the soil ecosystem loses complexity.

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    Decomposers like bacteria and fungi break down organic matter into inorganic nutrients that return to the beginning of the food chain, closing the nutrient cycle. However, energy flows in one direction through trophic levels and is lost at each level, preventing inverted energy pyramids. Intensive agriculture damages soil through heavy machinery crushing pores and reducing water and air retention. This harms root growth and soil organisms, starting a cycle where greater damage leads to more biodiversity loss as the soil ecosystem loses complexity.

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    Decomposers like bacteria and fungi break down organic matter into inorganic nutrients that return to the beginning of the food chain, closing the nutrient cycle. However, energy flows in one direction through trophic levels and is lost at each level, preventing inverted energy pyramids. Intensive agriculture damages soil through heavy machinery crushing pores and reducing water and air retention. This harms root growth and soil organisms, starting a cycle where greater damage leads to more biodiversity loss as the soil ecosystem loses complexity.

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    Unit 13

    Ecosystems

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    Unit 13, activity 12, page 81. Listen and complete the text.
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    Decomposers, which include bacteria and fungi, are considered the ecosystem recyclers, since
    they break organic matter down into inorganic matter such as mineral salts, which will be again
    used as nutrients by plants. This way, the material returns to the beginning of the food chain. This
    is why it is said that the flow of material is a closed cycle, because all of it is recycled without being
    lost. However, the flow of energy is only one way, and it is lost as it goes though the trophic levels,
    and this is why we can not find inverted energy trophic pyramids.

     nit 13, activity 21, page 83. Listen and then have a class debate about the overuse of
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    soil.
    One reason for biodiversity loss is economic development, which includes intensive agriculture,
    where big machines work in the fields. Their weight crushes the pores in the soil that should be
    full of either water or air. As a result, the soil loses its ability to retain water and air. This means
    roots cant penetrate very deeply, so the soil loses more and more organisms and organic matter.
    Its a vicious circle where the worse it gets, the more biodiversity it loses, as the soil ecosystem
    loses complexity.

    algaida editores, S.A. Authorized photocopiable material.

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