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ECOLOGY PART 2
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    ECOLOGY PART 2

    Energy Flow In Ecosystems

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    How Energy Flows

    • Energy flows through an ecosystems in one direction

    • Starting with the sun or chemical compounds

    • Then to autotrophs(producers)

    • Then to various heterotrophs(consumers)

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    Q.

    What are autotrophs

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    organisms that produce their own food

    producers

    organisms that consume what they eat

    consumers

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    Where does the energy flow start in an ecosystem?

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    autotrophs

    heterotrophs

    the sun

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    Food Chains

    • Food chains show how matter and energy move through ecosystems in a series of steps

    • Each step shows which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

    • The arrows show who is being transferred the energy (who is doing the eating)

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    Food Chains

    • Each organisms in a food chain represents a feeding step, or trophic level, in the transfer of matter and energy

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    Food chains show you what?

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    What organisms like to do

    How organisms grow and reproduce

    how matter and energy move through ecosystems

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    Food Webs

    Models that show all possible feeding relationships at each trophic level in a community; links all food chains in an ecosystem together.

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    Trophic Levels

    • Notice that producers are always on the bottom of the energy pyramid

    • We call consumers on the first level Primary Consumers

    • We call consumers on the next level Secondary Consumers

    • We call consumers on the next level Tertiary Consumers

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    What is always on the bottom level of energy pryamid?

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    primary consumers

    secondary consumers

    autotrophs (producers)

    heterotrophs (consumers)

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    What do we call consumers that consume autotrophs (producers)?

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    Primary Consumers

    Secondary Consumers

    Tertiary Consumers

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    Trophic Levels

    Energy is passed up a food chain or food web from lower to higher trophic levels.

    Generally only about 10% of the energy at one level is available to the next level.

    The rest of the energy is used for metabolic process or given off as heat to the environment.

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    How much energy is transferred to the next trophic level?

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    10%

    90%

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    What happens to 90% of the energy in each trophic level?

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    It turns into chemical energy

    It is lost as heat.

    It is used for metabolic processes

    All of the energy is used and none of it moves to another level

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