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Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
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Try it...
� Arrange the following organisms to show who eats
whom:
– orca
– cod fish
– krill shrimp
– algae
– leopard seal
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All organisms play a role in their ecosystem:
� Producer (Autotroph)
– Make their own food (usually through
photosynthesis, sometimes chemosynthesis)
� Ex: plants (even the Venus Flytrap!)
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Origin of the energy…
Sunlight is the ultimate origin of energy used by
life on earth to conduct the business of life.
6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy � C6H12O6 + 6O2
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All organisms play a role in their ecosystem:
� Consumers (Heterotroph)
– Can’t make its own food
– Gets energy from eating other organisms
1. Herbivores – eats plants
2. Carnivores – eats animals
3. Omnivores – eats plants & animals
• Scavengers – eats dead animals
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All organisms play a role in their ecosystem:
� Decomposers
– Break down waste and dead organisms to return
raw materials to the environment
� Ex: bacteria, fungi, worms
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Producer or Consumer?
Consumer (herbivore)
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Producer or Consumer?
Producer
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Producer or Consumer?
Consumer (omnivore)
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Producer or Consumer?
Consumer (carnivore)
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Food Chain
Food chain – shows one path of the flow of energy in an ecosystem
Order of the food chain:1.Sun – energy source
2.Producer
3.Primary Consumer – eats producers
4.Secondary Consumer – eats primary consumers
5.Tertiary Consumer (apex predator) – eats secondary consumers
6.Decomposer – recycles materials for use by producers
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Food web
� model that shows the energy flow through
different organisms in an ecosystem.
� consists of many overlapping food chains
within an ecosystem
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FOOD WEB VS FOOD CHAIN
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Ecological Pyramid Models
� A pyramid is used to illustrate the structure of
the trophic levels in a food chain.
� 3 types of ecological pyramids:
– Pyramid of numbers
– Biomass pyramid
– Energy pyramid
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Pyramid of Numbers
� Typically pyramid shaped, with the largest number of organisms at the producer level:
Compares the number of organisms at each trophic level in a food chain.
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Biomass Pyramid
Shows the amount of living matter in a food chain.
� Total dry weight (without water) of organisms in a
food chain
� Mass/Area
– Example: g/m2
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Energy Pyramids
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Flow of energy
� When an organism eats, it obtains energy,
then uses a lot of energy in life process like
growth and movement.
� This means that only part of their energy is
available to the next organism in the food
web.
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Energy Pyramid
� Illustrates the amount of energy that moves from
one feeding level to another in a food chain or web
� The greatest amount of energy is available at the
producer level
– The least amount of energy available to going to be a the top of the food chain.
� Only about 10% of the trophic level’s energy is transferred to the next level.
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Energy Pyramids