IGCSE Marine Science · Area 4 of 6

Nutrients and energy

The nutrients organisms need, respiration, photosynthesis, and the feeding relationships that move energy through a marine food web.

2 topics · 16 exam-style questions · 56 marks

Two pages on where the energy in the ocean comes from and where it goes.

Nutrients, respiration and photosynthesis

You need three things before you can explain how a marine ecosystem is powered: what a nutrient actually is, how to prove which nutrients a food contains, and what each n...

8 questions · 29 marks

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Feeding relationships and energy flow

Energy enters every marine food chain as sunlight captured by a producer, and it is then passed from organism to organism through food chains and webs, losing most of its...

8 questions · 27 marks

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