Organisms and their environment
Cambridge IGCSE Biology 0610 Topic 19 revision chapter covering organisms and their environment across four subtopics: 19.1 energy flow, 19.2 food chains and food webs, 19.3 nutrient cycles and 19.4 populations. Core and Supplement content are separated throughout, with 23 Core statements required of all candidates and 8 Supplement statements additionally required of Extended candidates. The chapter opens with the organising boundary of the whole topic: energy flows through an ecosystem and is not recycled, while matter cycles between organisms and the environment and is used again. It establishes the Sun as the principal source of energy input to biological systems, explains how photosynthetic producers transfer light energy into chemical energy in organic molecules, and defines producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, decomposer and trophic level in syllabus wording. Food chains are taught through the meaning of the arrow, which shows transfer of energy, biomass and nutrients from the food organism to the feeding organism, never from predator to prey, and the consumer levels are named in full as primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary. Food webs are treated as networks of interconnected food chains, with a step-by-step method for tracing the direct and indirect consequences of removing or increasing one population, and that method is then pointed at the two human activities the syllabus names here: over-harvesting a food species and introducing a foreign species to a habitat, both described strictly through the web. Decomposers are defined as organisms that obtain energy from dead or waste organic material, with extracellular digestion retained as clearly marked supporting context. Core pyramid work covers pyramids of numbers and biomass, when a pyramid of numbers is inverted, why dry mass for a stated area and time is preferred, and the advantages of a biomass pyramid over a numbers pyramid. Supplement pyramid and energy work adds the explanation of why trophic transfer is inefficient, percentage transfer-efficiency calculations, pyramids of energy and their advantages, why food chains rarely exceed five trophic levels, and why eating crop plants is more energy efficient than eating livestock fed on those crops. The carbon cycle is taught as Core, limited to photosynthesis, respiration, feeding, decomposition, fossil-fuel formation and combustion; the nitrogen cycle and the four roles of microorganisms within it are taught as Supplement, without naming individual bacterial species. Population, community and ecosystem are defined precisely, and the rate of population growth is explained through food supply, competition, predation and disease, each acting on survival or reproduction. The sigmoid curve of population growth is taught in full: Core candidates identify the lag, exponential (log), stationary and death phases and interpret population graphs by gradient rather than height, while a Supplement block explains what causes each phase with reference to limiting factors. Ecological sampling is taught as practical-skills method for Papers 5 and 6 rather than as subject content: random quadrat placement using random coordinates, counts and percentage cover, mean per quadrat, scaling to estimate a population, the assumptions and limitations of that estimate, and belt transects with a stated range and interval for investigating change along an environmental gradient.Show moreShow less
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What is Organisms and their environment about?
Ecosystems run on one input and two very different accounting systems. Light energy from the Sun enters through photosynthesis, passes along food chains by feeding, and is transferred to the environment as thermal energy at every step — so energy flows through an ecosystem and is never recycled. The atoms carried with it are different: carbon and nitrogen move from air to producer to consumer to decomposer and back to the air, so matter cycles and is used again. Everything else in this topic — the feeding-role definitions, food webs, ecological pyramids, the carbon and nitrogen cycles, and the shape of a growing population — is a consequence of those two sentences.
The most-asked questions about Topic 19, answered in the wording to use. Each answer stands alone, so you can use any one of them as a model sentence in the exam.
Key ideas to remember
- Matter goes round. Energy goes through. Every mark in this topic sits on one side of that line.
- level = consumer number + 1. Primary consumer, level 2. Quaternary consumer, level 5.
- Matter cycles. Energy flows. Carbon and nitrogen atoms are used over and over; the energy that accompanies every one of those processes is transferred to the environment as thermal energy and never returns.
- If you can rebuild this diagram from memory — four levels, five respiration arrows, one photosynthesis arrow, decomposers fed from every level, ammonium to nitrate to roots, and one population levelling off — you can answer almost anything in Topic 19.
- Three visits, spaced. Recall on day 1, produce on day 7, apply on day 30.
What you need to be able to do
- I can state that the Sun is the principal source of energy input to biological systems.
- I can describe the flow of energy through living organisms — light energy from the Sun, chemical energy in organisms, and its eventual transfer to the environment.
- I can describe a food chain as showing the transfer of energy from one organism to the next, beginning with a producer, and I can construct and interpret simple food chains.
- I can describe a food web as a network of interconnected food chains, and interpret one.
- I can define producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore and decomposer in syllabus wording.
- I can state that consumers may be classed as primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary according to their position in a food chain.
- I can describe a trophic level as the position of an organism in a food chain, food web or ecological pyramid, and identify producers and primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary consumers as the trophic levels.
- I can use food chains and food webs to describe the impact humans have through over-harvesting a food species and through introducing a foreign species to a habitat.
- I can draw, describe and interpret pyramids of numbers and pyramids of biomass.
- I can discuss the advantages of using a pyramid of biomass rather than a pyramid of numbers to represent a food chain.
- I can describe the carbon cycle, limited to photosynthesis, respiration, feeding, decomposition, formation of fossil fuels and combustion.
- I can describe a population as a group of organisms of one species, living in the same area, at the same time.
- I can describe a community as all of the populations of different species in an ecosystem.
- I can describe an ecosystem as a unit containing the community of organisms and their environment, interacting together.
- I can identify and state the factors affecting the rate of population growth, limited to food supply, competition, predation and disease.
- I can identify the lag, exponential (log), stationary and death phases in the sigmoid curve of population growth for a population growing where resources are limited.
- I can interpret graphs and diagrams of population growth.
- I can draw, describe and interpret pyramids of energy.
- I can discuss the advantages of using a pyramid of energy rather than pyramids of numbers or biomass to represent a food chain.
- I can explain why the transfer of energy from one trophic level to another is often not efficient, using the phrase less energy remains available for transfer to the next trophic level.
- I can explain, in terms of energy loss, why food chains usually have fewer than five trophic levels.
- I can explain why it is more energy efficient for humans to eat crop plants than to eat livestock that have been fed on crop plants.
- I can describe the nitrogen cycle with reference to decomposition of plant and animal protein to ammonium ions, nitrification, nitrogen fixation by lightning and bacteria, absorption of nitrate ions by plants, production of amino acids and proteins, feeding and digestion of proteins, deamination and denitrification.
- I can state the roles of microorganisms in the nitrogen cycle, limited to decomposition, nitrification, nitrogen fixation and denitrification — without naming individual bacteria.
- I can explain the factors that lead to each phase in the sigmoid curve of population growth, referring where appropriate to the role of limiting factors.
- I can describe a valid random quadrat sampling method and identify what must be standardised and how placement is made unbiased.
- I can estimate a population from quadrat data and state the assumptions that estimate depends on.
- I can explain when percentage cover is preferable to a count.
- I can describe a belt transect, state its range and interval, and distinguish systematic from random sampling.
Common mistakes to avoid
- “Food-chain arrows point from the predator to the prey.” Why it is wrong: the arrow shows the direction energy and material travel, and they travel into the organism that eats, not out of it. Exam-safe: the arrow points from the organism being eaten to the organism eating it, showing the transfer of energy and materials.
- “Producers create energy.” Why it is wrong: energy cannot be created. Photosynthesis changes the form energy is in. Exam-safe: producers transfer light energy into chemical energy stored in organic molecules.
- “Energy is recycled by decomposers.” Why it is wrong: decomposers respire like any organism, so the energy they release is transferred to the environment as thermal energy. Nothing returns it to the producers. Exam-safe: decomposers recycle matter, releasing inorganic nutrients. Energy flows through the ecosystem and is not recycled.
- “Decomposers are just scavengers.” Why it is wrong: scavengers are animals that swallow pieces of dead material and digest it in a gut. Decomposers digest it outside their bodies. Exam-safe: decomposers are bacteria and fungi that secrete enzymes onto dead material, digest it externally and absorb the soluble products.
- “Decomposers are the highest trophic level.” Why it is wrong: they receive dead material and waste from producers and from every consumer level, so no single level can be assigned to them. Exam-safe: draw decomposers to the side of the chain with arrows coming into them from several levels.
- “All the organisms at one level are eaten by the next.” Why it is wrong: many die of disease, age or cold, and much of each organism is never eaten anyway. Exam-safe: not all organisms are eaten, and not all parts of those that are eaten are consumed — both are reasons transfer is inefficient.
- “Respiration destroys energy.” Why it is wrong: respiration releases energy from glucose. The energy is not destroyed; it is transferred, largely to the environment as thermal energy. Exam-safe: energy is released in respiration and transferred to the environment, so less remains available for the next trophic level.
- “A pyramid of numbers is always upright.” Why it is wrong: bar width counts individuals regardless of size, so one large producer can support many small consumers. Exam-safe: a pyramid of numbers may be inverted, for example when a single oak tree supports thousands of caterpillars.
- “Biomass means the mass of one organism.” Why it is wrong: a pyramid of biomass compares whole trophic levels, not individuals. Exam-safe: biomass is the total mass of living material at that trophic level, preferably as dry mass, for a stated area at a stated time.
- “Plants do not respire, so plant respiration is not part of the carbon cycle.” Why it is wrong: plants respire continuously, day and night, and release carbon dioxide. Exam-safe: respiration by producers, consumers and decomposers all return carbon dioxide to the air. Plant respiration is the arrow easiest to forget.
- “Plants absorb nitrogen gas from the air.” Why it is wrong: nitrogen gas is unreactive and plants have no mechanism for using it. Only nitrogen-fixing bacteria and lightning make it available. Exam-safe: plant roots absorb nitrate ions from the soil solution and use the nitrogen to make amino acids and proteins.
- “Nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria do much the same thing.” Why it is wrong: they drive nitrogen in opposite directions. One makes it available to plants; the other removes it. Exam-safe: nitrifying bacteria convert ammonium ions toward nitrate ions; denitrifying bacteria convert nitrate compounds back to nitrogen gas.
- “A population is all the organisms living in an area.” Why it is wrong: that is a community. A population is restricted to one species. Exam-safe: a population is a group of organisms of one species, living in the same area, at the same time.
- “Random quadrats can be placed wherever is convenient.” Why it is wrong: choosing the position, however casually, introduces bias — and throwing the quadrat is biased by direction, force and terrain. Exam-safe: use two tapes at right angles and place each quadrat at coordinates from a pair of random numbers.
- “A population estimate is the number of organisms present.” Why it is wrong: only a small fraction of the area was examined, and the calculation assumes those samples represent the whole. Exam-safe: it is an estimate. State that the organisms may not be evenly distributed and that more quadrats would improve reliability.
- “A belt transect is a form of random sampling.” Why it is wrong: quadrat positions along a transect are set by a fixed interval, which is systematic, not random. Exam-safe: a belt transect is systematic sampling, used to investigate change along an environmental gradient rather than to estimate abundance without bias.
- “Every non-native species becomes invasive.” Why it is wrong: most introduced species fail to establish, and many that do have no measurable effect. Exam-safe: an introduced species may compete with, prey on or bring disease to native species, especially if it has no natural predators there.
- “The population is growing fastest where the curve is highest.” Why it is wrong: the height of the curve is the population size; the growth rate is the gradient. The stationary phase is the highest part of the curve and the slowest-growing part of it. Exam-safe: growth is fastest in the exponential (log) phase, where the curve is steepest.
- “In the stationary phase the population has stopped reproducing.” Why it is wrong: organisms are still being born and still dying throughout the stationary phase. What has changed is the balance, not the activity. Exam-safe: in the stationary phase the birth rate and the death rate are approximately equal, so the population size stays roughly constant.
- “Limiting factors cause the stationary phase.” Why it is wrong: that restates the question. The question is asking which factor, and what it does. Supplement 19.4.7 Exam-safe: name one — food supply, water, space, a mineral ion — then say that competition for it increases, fewer individuals survive or reproduce, and the death rate rises until it equals the birth rate.
- “A pyramid of numbers is inverted because energy is lost between trophic levels.” Why it is wrong: two separate ideas welded together. A pyramid of numbers inverts because it counts individuals regardless of size — energy loss has nothing to do with it. Energy loss is why a pyramid of energy narrows upwards, and that is Supplement content. Exam-safe: a pyramid of numbers may be inverted when one large producer supports many small consumers. If you are on the Extended route and the question is about a pyramid of energy, then use the transfer losses.
- “There are three consumer levels: primary, secondary and tertiary.” Why it is wrong: the syllabus names four, and asks you to identify all of them as trophic levels. Exam-safe: primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary consumers — making, with the producer, five trophic levels in the longest chains you will meet.
Examiner tips
- How to use the labels as you read. Every teaching block carries a visible tag: Core 19.2.11 or Supplement 19.2.17. Supplement depth that extends a Core lesson sits in a bordered block headed Supplement — Extended candidates. Core candidates can skip those blocks without losing anything a Core question can ask. Extended candidates cannot.
- Which papers are yours. A Core candidate takes Paper 1, Paper 3 and either Paper 5 or Paper 6. An Extended candidate takes Paper 2, Paper 4 and either Paper 5 or Paper 6. Both practical papers are common to the two routes, so the sampling sections in this chapter matter whichever route you are on.
- Wording to avoid. “Plants make energy”, “plants produce energy from the Sun”, “energy is created in photosynthesis”. Energy cannot be made. Write transfers light energy into chemical energy in organic molecules, or at minimum converts light energy to chemical energy.
- Four consumer names, not three. The syllabus names primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary consumers, and lists all four — alongside producers — as the trophic levels you must be able to identify in a chain, a web or a pyramid. Quaternary is the one that is easiest to forget under pressure, and it is the fifth trophic level, not the fourth: the numbering is one ahead of the consumer name throughout, because level 1 is the producer.
- Two ways to get one arrow wrong. Reversing it is the obvious one. The subtler one is answering “what does the arrow show?” with “is eaten by”. That phrase names the event but not the transfer, so it is usually not enough. Write: the transfer of energy and materials from the organism being eaten to the organism eating it.
- What separates a thin answer from a full one. “Overfishing reduces the number of cod” is the direct change only. The substance is in the arrows leaving that node: what fed on cod, what cod fed on, and what happens to each. Name the organisms from the web in front of you.
- Distinct points, not restatements. “Energy is lost as heat” and “energy is used for movement” are two points only if you make the link explicit — respiration releases the energy, movement uses it, and it ends up transferred to the environment. Writing “heat loss” three different ways is one reason, not three. Aim for one line per route out of the chain.
- Units carry meaning in this topic. Energy at a trophic level is a rate per unit area: \(\mathrm{kJ/m^2/year}\). It has to be per area, because a bigger field holds more energy, and per time, because energy keeps arriving. If a question supplies a unit, use that exact unit in your answer; if it asks you to comment on a pyramid of energy, the time component is part of why the pyramid is meaningful.
- “Which pyramid would be most useful, and why?” is a standard question, and the answer is nearly always the pyramid of energy, for a reason you must state: it measures the energy transferred over time, so it shows how much energy is actually available to the next level and it cannot be distorted by organism size or by a seasonal snapshot. Naming the pyramid without that reason is half an answer.
- Keep it energetic, and keep it conditional. This objective is about energy transfer, so answer with transfers and losses. It is generally more energy-efficient to eat crop plants directly — it does not follow that every field should grow crops, because land unsuitable for crops may still support grazing animals, and diets involve nutritional, economic and cultural questions this syllabus point does not address. State the energy conclusion, note that it depends on context, and stop there.
- Learn the roles as directions, not as a list. Three of the four make nitrogen more available to plants or move it along — fixation, decomposition, nitrification. One takes it away — denitrification. If you can say which way each role drives the nitrogen, you can reconstruct the whole cycle from the four names.
- You are not required to name bacterial species. The syllabus says so explicitly: generic names of individual bacteria, such as Rhizobium, are not required. “Nitrogen-fixing bacteria”, “nitrifying bacteria” and “denitrifying bacteria” are the names the syllabus wants, and they are named for what they do — which makes them almost impossible to mix up once you notice. What you must get right is the direction each one drives the nitrogen: fixation and nitrification make it available to plants; denitrification takes it away.
- A compare question needs linked statements. “Carbon dioxide is absorbed by plants” on one line and “nitrogen is fixed by bacteria” on another is two facts, not a comparison. Write them as one linked sentence: plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air directly, whereas they cannot absorb nitrogen gas and must take up nitrate ions from the soil instead. One linked sentence is one comparison.
- Watch the trap in “same area at the same time”. Questions sometimes describe two groups of the same species in ponds a kilometre apart, or the same pond in two different years. Neither is one population. If a definition question offers you a data table, check the place and the date before you commit.
- Use “may”, and mean it. An increase in food supply does not guarantee population growth — predators, disease or a shortage of nesting sites may hold the population where it is. Conditional wording is the accurate wording here, and a flat “the population will increase” claims more than the biology supports.
- Both names are accepted for the second phase. The syllabus writes it as “exponential (log)”, so exponential phase and log phase are the same thing and the syllabus gives you both. Write one of them — not “growth phase”, which is not the term.
- Name the limiting factor, do not just use the phrase. “Limiting factors cause the stationary phase” is a restatement, not an explanation. Name one — food supply, space, a mineral ion, light — and say what it does: fewer individuals obtain enough, so fewer survive or reproduce, so the death rate rises to meet the birth rate.
- Never call it a count. If a question asks you to “estimate the number of…”, the word estimate should appear in your answer too, and the two limitations worth having ready are that only a small part of the area was sampled, and that the organisms may not be evenly distributed.
- Say the numbers. “Quadrats every 2 m from the water's edge to 24 m up the shore, along five parallel transects” is a method. “Quadrats at intervals along a transect” is a description of a transect. The first can be followed by someone else; the second cannot.
- A precaution must match its hazard. “Be careful” says nothing. “Wear gloves” says nothing either, unless you have named what the gloves are protecting against. Write the pair: hazard — sharp shells on the rocks; precaution — wear gloves and sturdy shoes.
How Organisms and their environment is examined
- Topic 19 is unusual: it appears on every paper, and it appears differently on each. Knowing which version you are looking at changes what a full-mark answer contains.
- Which papers are yours. A Core candidate takes Paper 1, Paper 3 and either Paper 5 or Paper 6. An Extended candidate takes Paper 2, Paper 4 and either Paper 5 or Paper 6. Both practical papers are common to the two routes, so the sampling sections in this chapter matter whichever route you are on.
- State what happens, in order. Used for the carbon cycle, for sampling methods, and for tracing human impact through a web. A described sequence needs every required step present and in the right order; it does not need a reason unless you are also asked to explain.
- Cause → biological mechanism → outcome. Almost every explain command in this topic sits on a Supplement statement — transfer losses, chain length, diet efficiency, growth-curve phases. Never stop at the cause.
- Pick it out and name it. Used for trophic levels and for the phases of a growth curve. The answer is a name, not a paragraph — but it must be the syllabus name.
- Weigh one option against another. Used for choosing between ecological pyramids. Give the advantage and what it is an advantage over, and mention the practical cost where there is one.
Frequently asked questions
Which way do food chain arrows point?
From the organism being eaten to the organism eating it. The arrow shows the transfer of energy, biomass and nutrients, and that transfer goes into the feeder. Reading it as “is eaten by” is a useful check, but if you are asked what the arrow represents, name the transfer and its direction.
Why does energy flow but matter cycle?
Energy enters as light, is transferred along the chain by feeding, and is transferred to the environment as thermal energy at every level — and nothing returns it to the producers, so it makes a single one-way pass. Matter is different: the same carbon and nitrogen atoms are returned to the environment by respiration, excretion, death and decomposition, and producers take them up again. Matter is reused; energy is not.
How much energy is transferred between trophic levels? Supplement 19.2.17
Only a small fraction, often around ten per cent, though the exact figure varies. Use the value a question gives you rather than quoting a general figure, and be ready to explain why so little is transferred: uneaten parts, egested undigested material, respiration and thermal transfer to the environment, movement and other life processes, excretory losses, and organisms dying without being eaten.
Why are food chains usually shorter than five levels? Supplement 19.2.18
Because transfer is inefficient, so the energy available falls sharply at each level. After a few transfers there is too little energy arriving to support another population of predators large enough to survive and reproduce. Say usually: some marine chains are longer because their producers are highly productive.
Can a pyramid of numbers really be upside down?
Yes. Bar width counts individuals and takes no account of size, so a single large producer such as an oak tree can support thousands of caterpillars, giving a narrow base and a much wider second level. Parasites do the same thing higher up a chain. A pyramid of energy, by contrast, is always upright when correctly constructed.
Do I need to learn the names of the bacteria in the nitrogen cycle? Supplement 19.3.3
No. Nitrogen-fixing, nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria are named for what they do, and those descriptive names are what the syllabus asks for. What you must get right is the direction each drives the nitrogen: fixation and nitrification make it available to plants, and denitrification returns it to the atmosphere.
Why can't plants use the nitrogen in the air? Supplement 19.3.2
Nitrogen gas is very unreactive and plants have no way of breaking the two atoms apart. Nitrogen becomes available only when nitrogen-fixing bacteria, or lightning, convert it into compounds. Roots then absorb nitrate ions from the soil solution and use the nitrogen to make amino acids and proteins.
What is the difference between random quadrats and a transect?
Random quadrats are placed at coordinates from pairs of random numbers, so every part of the area has an equal chance of being sampled — they estimate abundance without bias. A belt transect places quadrats at fixed intervals along a line, which is systematic sampling, and it measures how abundance changes along an environmental gradient. Different questions, different designs.
Is a population estimate the same as a count?
No. Only a small fraction of the study area is examined, and the calculation assumes those quadrats represent the whole. Always call it an estimate, and be ready to give a limitation: the small proportion sampled, or the possibility that the organisms are not evenly distributed.
Is every introduced species harmful?
No. Most fail to establish, and many that do have no measurable effect — most crops and farm animals are non-native where they are grown or kept. An introduced species may cause harm if it competes with native species, preys on them, brings a disease, or has no natural predators to limit it. Use conditional wording.
What are the four phases of the sigmoid curve, and how do I tell them apart?
Lag, exponential (log), stationary and death, in that order. Tell them apart by the gradient, never by the height: in the lag phase the curve is low and rising slowly; in the exponential phase it is at its steepest; in the stationary phase the gradient returns to about zero and the population sits at the maximum the environment can support; in the death phase the gradient is negative. The syllabus writes the second one as “exponential (log)”, so either name is accepted.
Why is the population not growing fastest at the top of the curve?
Because the top of the curve shows the largest population, not the fastest growth. Growth rate is the steepness of the curve, and at the top it has flattened to about zero — births and deaths are approximately balanced. Growth is fastest in the exponential phase, partway up. Reading height when the question asked about rate is the trap this subtopic is built around.
Why is the nitrogen cycle Supplement when the carbon cycle is Core? Tier
Because that is where Cambridge places them. Subtopic 19.3 has one Core statement, the carbon cycle, and two Supplement statements, the nitrogen cycle and the roles of microorganisms within it. If you are a Core candidate the nitrogen cycle cannot be asked of you; if you are an Extended candidate it is required content, not extension.
Which pyramids do I actually need? Tier
Every candidate needs pyramids of numbers and biomass, and must be able to discuss the advantages of biomass over numbers. Pyramids of energy — and the three-way comparison — are Supplement, required only of Extended candidates. If you are on the Core route and a question asks you to compare pyramids, it means numbers against biomass.
How do I describe human impact “using a food web”?
Start at the organism the humans acted on, then follow the arrows outwards. Say what happens to that population directly; then what happens to the organisms that ate it, because they have lost a food source; then what happens to the organisms it ate, because they have lost a predator; then keep going one more arrow. Name the organisms from the web in front of you, and use may — these are expected directions of change, not certainties.
Where did deforestation, eutrophication and conservation go?
They are Topic 20, Human influences on ecosystems — still fully examinable, but in a different chapter. The only human activity examined inside Topic 19 is statement 19.2.10, and there it is examined strictly as something you trace through a food web rather than evaluate.
Syllabus reference and sources
Written against: Cambridge IGCSE Biology (0610), syllabus for 2026, 2027 and 2028, version 2 published December 2025 (Subject Content, Topic 19: Organisms and their environment, subtopics 19.1–19.4).
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