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Energy Transfer in Ecosystem Vocabulary • Trophic = nutrition – Autotrophs – Heterotrophs

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Page 1: Energy Transfer in Ecosystem Vocabulary Trophic = nutrition –Autotrophs –Heterotrophs

Energy Transfer in Ecosystem

Vocabulary

• Trophic = nutrition– Autotrophs

– Heterotrophs

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Autotrophs (Producers)

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Heterotrophs (Consumers)

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Heterotrophs

• Consumers1. Scavengers feed on the tissue of dead

organisms (both plans and animals)

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Heterotrophs

• Consumers2. Herbivores eat ONLY plants.

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Heterotrophs

• Consumers3. Carnivores eat ONLY animals.

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Heterotrophs

• Consumers4. Omnivores eat BOTH plants and animals

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Heterotrophs

• Decomposers absorb any dead material and break it down into simple nutrients or fertilizers

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Transfer of Energy

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Trophic Levels…

…represent different levels in a food web.

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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.)

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Food Web

• Notice that the direction the arrow points

• The arrow points in the direction of the energy transfer, NOT “what ate what”.

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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?

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Ecological Pyramid