Energy Roles
a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is a food chain.
How many trophic levels are in a normal food chain?
4
How do producers make food?
Photosynthesis. Or suns energy
many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is food web.
How do organisms obtain energy?
What is by consuming/eating.
In an energy pyramid what gives off the most energy for the ecosystem?
Producers
What happens to the amount of organisms as they go up the food pyramid?
Lowers. Gets smaller, shrinks, less numbers
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one trophic feeding level to another in a food web.
What is an energy pyramid?
How much energy is transferred from one organism to another when feeding on one another?
What is 10 percent. (lose 90%)
Looking at the food chain, how does the frog receive energy?
Algae -> Water Beetle -> Frog -> Kingfisher
Water Beetle
Energy flows from the producer level to the ________________ level.
Consumer
Which diagram is a more realistic portrayal of how an ecosystem transfers energy: food web or food chain? Explain.
What is food web.
What role do humans play in the food web?
Consumer.
Energy flows through ecosystems: this can be demonstrated visually by food chains, food webs and what else?
Energy Pyramid
What kind of organism is a Heterotroph?
Consumer
Heat Energy
Consumers include all animals and fungi. What is another living thing that is a consumer in nature?
Bacteria