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Ecological Pyramids and Energy Flow

This document discusses ecological pyramids, including pyramids of numbers and pyramids of mass. It provides examples of food chains and the corresponding pyramids. It then asks how the pyramids would change if birds in a food chain were parasitized by nematode worms. Finally, it asks the reader to draw pyramids based on a scenario involving elephants, lice, and nematodes and identify factors that affect organism numbers.

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Ecological Pyramids and Energy Flow

This document discusses ecological pyramids, including pyramids of numbers and pyramids of mass. It provides examples of food chains and the corresponding pyramids. It then asks how the pyramids would change if birds in a food chain were parasitized by nematode worms. Finally, it asks the reader to draw pyramids based on a scenario involving elephants, lice, and nematodes and identify factors that affect organism numbers.

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ECOLOGICAL
PYRAMIDS AND
ENERGY FLOW
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WHICH IS THE TOP PREDATOR?
z
ECOLOGICAL PYRAMIDS

 PYRAMID OF NUMBERS – represent the


number of organisms in each trophic level in a
food chain.
 PYRAMID OF MASS – shows total mass of
organisms in each trophic level, irrespective of
their numbers.
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Grass -> Grasshopper -> Bird

PYRAMID OF NUMBERS PYRAMID OF MASS


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Oak Tree -> Aphids ->Ladybirds -> Bird

PYRAMID OF NUMBERS PYRAMID OF MASS


Supposed the bird in the food chain are parasite by
z nematode worms, What will be the appearance both of
the pyramids?

PYRAMID OF NUMBERS PYRAMID OF MASS


z
z
A single elephant consumes many acacia trees. On the elephant’s skin are many
parasitic lice and each of the lice has many parasitic nematode worms in its gut.
z

 Make a food chain


from above’s scenario.
 Create a Pyramid of
Numbers
 Create a Pyramid of
Mass
FACTORS THAT AFFECT NUMBER OF
z
ORGANISMS

ABIOTIC FACTOR BIOTIC FACTOR


z

 Look at the food web, Who does


the Maned Geese depend on for
survival?

 Using the same food web, which


organism may not increase in
population if all the frogs were
removed from this ecosystem?

 which organisms would be affected


if the algae were to overproduce

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