Flow of Energy Concepts
Only 1 percent of energy is available at this level.
What is trophic level 3?
This type of diagram shows how energy moves from the Sun, to a producer, to one or more consumers through a feeding relationship
What is a food chain?
This breaks down during cellular respiration
What is glucose?
This first of two steps of cellular respiration occurs in in the cytoplasm of cells
What is glycolysis?
Producers and consumers are eaten by this
What are omnivores?
Because of them, dead organisms would pile up in an ecosystem.
What are detritivores?
This is another name for the steps of an energy pyramid
What are trophic levels?
The main source of energy for most of life on Earth comes from here.
All organic and nonorganic live things live in this area
What is an ecosystem?
This is useful when studying parts of an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
They're source of energy comes from other organisms
What are consumers?
This sort of diagram shows how some organisms may be part of more than one food chain in that web
What is a food web?
This is referred to as the green pigment that is found in chloroplasts
What is chlorophyll?
A series of chemical reactions that convert light energy, water and carbon dioxide into the food-energy molecule glucose, and give off oxygen
What is photosynthesis?
These two things are needed for cellular respiration to occur
What are glucose and oxygen?
100 percent of energy is available at this trophic level
What is Trophic Level 1?
Most are photosynthetic, while others are chemosynthetic
What are producers?
The location of photosynthesis
What are chloroplasts?
The sugars produced in this process can be immediately stored for growth or for later use
What is a photosynthesis?
This is an interaction between two organisms in which one organism eats another
What is a feeding relationship?
What are detritivores?
The two parts of a cell where cellular respiration occurs
What are cytoplasm and mitochondria?
Instead of light energy, producers use this process to convert chemical energy in matter to make food
What is chemosynthesis?
Unlike matter, this those not cycle through ecosystems
What is energy?