energy transfer in ecosystem vocabulary trophic = nutrition –autotrophs –heterotrophs
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Energy Transfer in Ecosystem
Vocabulary
• Trophic = nutrition– Autotrophs
– Heterotrophs
Autotrophs (Producers)
Heterotrophs (Consumers)
Heterotrophs
• Consumers1. Scavengers feed on the tissue of dead
organisms (both plans and animals)
Heterotrophs
• Consumers2. Herbivores eat ONLY plants.
Heterotrophs
• Consumers3. Carnivores eat ONLY animals.
Heterotrophs
• Consumers4. Omnivores eat BOTH plants and animals
Heterotrophs
• Decomposers absorb any dead material and break it down into simple nutrients or fertilizers
Transfer of Energy
Trophic Levels…
…represent different levels in a food web.
Food Webs• We represent the energy flow from one trophic
level to another as a food web.• (Most organisms eat more than one different
species.)
Food Web
• Notice that the direction the arrow points
• The arrow points in the direction of the energy transfer, NOT “what ate what”.
Ecological Pyramid
1. Which level has the most energy?2. Which level has the most
organisms?3. Which level has the fewest
organisms?4. Which level has the least energy?
Ecological Pyramid