Energy Flow
This refers to the transfer of energy through a food chain or food web, starting from the sun to producers then to consumers and decomposers.
What is energy flow?
What is a plant, animal, fungi or bacteria.?
This is the long term average of weather in a particular area including temperature, precipitation and humidity.
What is climate?
This is the position an organism occupies in a food chain, such as producer, primary consumer, or secondary consumer.
What is trophic level?
These are interconnected through food webs, nutrient cycles, and energy flow, affecting each other's stability.
What are ecosystems?
This is a linear sequence of organisms where nutrients and energy pass from one to another.
What is a food chain?
This is a non living part of the environment, such as sunlight, water, temperature and soil.
What is an abiotic factor?
Climate impacts this by determining the types of vegetation and animal life that can thrive in an area.
What is ecosystem?
What is a primary consumer?
What is an example of an ecosystem interaction?
These organisms provide energy through photosynthesis (using sunlight) or chemosynthesis (using chemicals).
What are producers?
This describes non living factors that can influence the types of organisms that can survive in an ecosystem and their interactions.
What is how abiotic factors affect an ecosystem?
What is the relationship between climate and biodiversity?
The relationship between climate and biodiversity is that diverse ecosystems often exist in stable climates, while extreme climates may limit biodiversity.
This organism will break down dead organic matter, returning nutrients to the soil and completing the cycle of energy flow.
What are decomposers?
Explain how energy moves through an ecosystem.
Energy begins with the sun, the goes to producers, then to consumers and decomposers in a continuous flow.
What is a food web?
Name three abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
What are sunlight, water and temperature (soil also accepted).
Climate plays a role in this by influencing the productivity of producers, which affects the entire food web.
What is energy flow?
Give two examples of trophic level 6 consumers.
What are certain sharks, orcas, lions, tigers, eagles, etc.
Give an example of how one species can affect another in a food chain.
One species can affect another by serving as a food source or competing for the same resource.
This describes a linear sequence, while this other shows how different ones are interconnected.
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Name three biotic factors in an ecosystem?
What are animals, plants, bacteria, fungi, fish, etc.
Climate changes can disrupt this by affecting species populations and their interactions.
What is food webs?
What is the 10% rule?
Explain how human activities can disrupt energy flow in ecosystems.
Human activities such as pollution, deforestation, and climate change can disrupt energy flow by altering habitats and species interactions.