Flow Of Energy Through An Ecosystem In Avatar, By James Cameron

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The movie “Avatar” brings up many topics that we have gone over in this class this year. James Cameron represents the topics in the movie Avatar, one of the topic’s that i chose is in my opinion the most relevant one in the movie is “flow of energy through an ecosystem.” In the movie there is the very large tree that is special to the Na’vi people. It holds all they’re memories, it’s like a biological internet almost like a computer. The topic relates to the tree because there is energy flowing through the tree and into the ecosystem.

Tragedy of the commons, when the sky people came and destroyed everything the Na’vi people loved. They killed many of their loved ones when they bombed the tree down. They took most of what meant a lot to the

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