Assignment:
Air & Water
Write a 500 word paper in which your team examines the framework of wetlands ecosystem and how it functions. In your paper, include the following items: Describe how climate affects wetlands ecosystem. Explain, based on the first and second laws of thermodynamics, how energy flows through wetlands ecosystem. Examine how matter is transported through your selected ecosystem due to biogeochemical cycles, such as carbon, hydrologic, nitrogen, or phosphorus. Discuss how human activities have altered these matter or nutrient cycles.