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Sanket's Food Chains and Food Web
Sanket's Food Chains and Food Web
Energy Roles
An organisms energy role in an ecosystem may be that of a producer, consumer, or decomposer.
Producers
An organism that can make its own food is a producer. Autotroph Source of all food in an ecosystem. Capture energy from sunlight and stores it as food energy.
Consumers
Consumers are heterotrophs, or living things that cannot make food for themselves. A food chain contains several kinds of consumers, each of which occupies a different trophic level. Herbivore, carnivores, omnivores
Decomposers
Help break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the environment Bacteria and fungi
Food Chains
Series of events where one organism eats another and obtains energy. First organism in chain is the producer. The second organism is the consumer that eats the producer.
Come up with an example to fill in the blocks of a food chain in two different ecosytems.
Food Webs
Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. Some organisms may play more than one role by changing consumer levels.
Energy Pyramids
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. Represented in a triangle with the most energy at the producer level.
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