energy flow in the biosphere, ttavk/weltkarten/globen/1997-1998-biosphere-nasa.jpg
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Energy Flow in the Biosphere,
http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/~ttavk/weltkarten/globen/1997-1998-biosphere-Nasa.jpg
Essential Question• How does energy flow through an
ecosystem?
The Earth is SOLAR POWERED!
_____________ is the main source of energy for life on Earth.
http://www.animation-station.com/smileys/index.php?page=17
SUNLIGHT
ALL LIVING THINGS USE ENERGY
AUTOTROPHS = PRODUCERSCan make their own food
Most autotrophs use _______________ to capture solar energy Main producers on land
= green plants
In water = algaeBIOLOGY; MIller and Levine; Prentice Hall; 2006
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
ALL LIVING THINGS USE ENERGY
HETEROTROPHS = ____________Get energy from consuming other organisms
http://www.epa.gov/region5/superfund/ecology/images/fishcartoon.gif
CONSUMERS
HETEROTROPHS = CONSUMERS
________________ = eat only plants
________________ = eat only animals
________________ =eat both plants & animals
http://gallery.hd.org/_exhibits/natural-science/_more2003/_more09/elephant-eating-greenery-in-Addo-Park-Eastern-Cape-South-Africa-2-WL.jpghttp://personal.ecu.edu/wuenschk/rabbit-wolf.gifhttp://www.rodsguide.com/bears/eating.jpg
HERBIVORES
CARNIVORES
OMNIVORES
HETEROTROPHS = CONSUMERS
________________ = feed on plant & animal remains EX: mites, earthworms,
snails, crabs
________________ = break down and absorb
organic matterEX: bacteria & fungi
http://montereybayphotos.com/images/nature/2.jpghttp://www.fwnp.com/bracket-fungi.htm
DETRITIVORES
DECOMPOSERS
Energy flows through an ecosystem in a series of steps in which
organisms transfer energy by being eaten
________________
_________________
= _________________http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Dana/foodchain.jpg
PRODUCERS(Autotrophs)
CONSUMERS(Heterotrophs)
↑↑
FOOD CHAIN
Food Chains• Food chains show the transfer of energy
from the sun to producer to consumer
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• Arrows point in the direction that the energy is going
In most ecosystems
feeding relationships
are more complex
A ______________ links ALL the food chains in an ecosystem together.
FOOD WEB
Pearson Education Inc, Publishing as Pearson Prentice Hall
Ecological Pyramids• An ecological pyramid is yet another way
of showing the transfer of energy in an ecosystem
• They also show– How amount of available energy decreases for
higher consumers– That it takes a large number of producers to
support a small number of tertiary consumers
Ecological Pyramids
• An ecological pyramid is a diagram that can show the relative amounts of energy, biomass, or numbers of organisms at each trophic level in an ecosystem.1. Energy Pyramid
2. Biomass Pyramid
3. Pyramid of Numbers
Each step in a food chain or web =
_______________
______________
ALWAYS make up the ________
trophic level.http://home.insightbb.com/~g.mager/Pond/Ecosystem.htll
TROPHIC LEVEL
PRODUCERS
FIRST
TROPHIC LEVELS = steps in a food chain
• 1st trophic level is the producer
• 2nd trophic level is the primary consumer or herbivore
• 3rd level is the secondary consumer or smaller carnivore
• 4th level is the tertiary consumer or larger carnivore
Lower levels must be
bigger to support the
level above.
Only about_____ of the energy fromeach level is passedon.
This is known as the law of 10%http://home.insightbb.com/~g.mager/Pond/Ecosystem.htll
10%
Some energy is used
for life processessuch as growth,development,movement,metabolism,transport, andreproduction.
The rest islost as ________http://home.insightbb.com/~g.mager/Pond/Ecosystem.htll
HEAT
Pyramid of Energy* energy decreases at each succeeding trophic level – only 10% of the energy goes to the next level
100%
10%
1%
0.1%
Why not 100%? Because organisms use much of the energy for life processes (movement, reproduction) and some
is released into the environment as heat . (entropy)
Biomass Pyramid• Biomass – total weight of
living things
• In a pyramid of biomass, each level represents the amount of biomass consumed by the level above it.
Pyramid of Numbers
• Pyramid of numbers shows the relative number of organisms at each trophic level.
• the number of organisms is higher at the bottom of the pyramid (producers) and lower at the top (top consumers)
Ecological Pyramids
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