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Ecosystems Section 2
Section 2: Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Preview• Bellringer• Key Ideas• Trophic Levels• Loss of Energy• Summary
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BellringerThink about your local area and make a diagram of a food chain that would be typical for your area. Try to put six organisms into the food chain.
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Key Ideas
• How does energy flow through an ecosystem?
• What happens to energy as it is transferred between trophic levels in a community?
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Trophic Levels• The primary source of energy for an ecosystem is the
sun.
• Photosynthetic organisms, such as plants and algae, change light energy from the sun into energy that they can use to grow.
• These photosynthetic organisms are producers, the basic food source for an ecosystem.
• Consumers are organisms that eat other organisms instead of producing their own food.
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Visual Concept: Comparing Consumers and Producers
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Trophic Levels, continued• Decomposers, such as bacteria and fungi, are
organisms that break down the remains of animals.
• In an ecosystem, energy flows from the sun to producers to consumers to decomposers.
• Each step in the transfer of energy through an ecosystem is called a trophic level.
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Trophic Levels
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Trophic Levels, continued
Food Chains• In ecosystems, energy flows from one trophic level to the
next, forming a food chain.
• The first trophic level of ecosystems is made up of producers. Plants, algae, and some bacteria use the energy in sunlight to build energy-rich carbohydrates.
• The second trophic level of a food chain is made up of herbivores, which eat producers. Cows are an example of an herbivore.
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Trophic Levels, continued• The third trophic level includes animals that eat
herbivores. Any animal that eats another animal is a carnivore. Some carnivores are on the third trophic level because they eat herbivores.
• Other carnivores are on the fourth trophic level or an even higher trophic level because they eat other carnivores.
• Omnivores, such as bears, are animals that are both herbivores and carnivores.
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Visual Concept: Types of Consumers
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Trophic Levels, continuedFood Webs• In most ecosystems, energy does not follow a simple
food chain. Energy flow is much more complicated.
• Ecosystems almost always have many more species than a single food chain has. In addition, most organisms eat more than one kind of food.
• This complicated, interconnected group of food chains is called a food web.
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Food Chain and Food Web in Antarctic Ecosystem
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Loss of Energy
Energy Pyramid• Energy is stored at each link in a food web. But some
energy that is used dissipates as heat into the environment and is not recycled.
• When an animal eats food, it gets energy from the food.
• When the energy is used, about 90% of it is converted into heat energy and is dispersed into the environment.
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Energy Transfer Through Trophic Levels
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Loss of Energy, continued• Only about 10% is stored in the animal’s body as fat or
as tissue. This amount of stored energy is all that is available to organisms at the next trophic level that consume the animal.
• An energy pyramid is a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem’s food chain.
• Each layer in the energy pyramid represents one trophic level.
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Loss of Energy, continued• Producers form the pyramid’s base, which is the lowest
trophic level. The lowest level has the most energy in the pyramid.
• Herbivores have less energy and make up the second level.
• Carnivores that feed on herbivores make up the higher level.
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Visual Concept: Energy Pyramid
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Energy Loss, continued• The energy stored by the organisms at each trophic level
is about one tenth the energy stored by the organisms in the level below. So, the diagram takes the shape of a pyramid.
• Big predators, such as lions, are rare compared to herbivores.
• Big predators are rare because a lot more energy is required to support a single predator than a single herbivore. Many ecosystems do not have enough energy to support a large population of predators.
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Amount of Energy at Four Trophic Levels
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Summary
• In an ecosystem, energy flows from the sun to producers to consumers to decomposers.
• Energy is stored at each link in a food web, but some energy that is used dissipates as heat into the environment and is not recycled.