energy flow
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Energy
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Energy is the ability to cause change
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The ultimate source of the energy
for life on earth
is the SUN
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How Organisms Obtain Energy
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Energy Flow
• Flow means to move.• Energy flows from producer to consumer via
matter• Energy is transferred from one organism to
the next, however, a lot of energy is lost to the environment as heat.
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Energy Flow
• Food chain - a model that shows how matter and energy moves through an ecosystem.
• Energy moves from producer to consumer to decomposer.
berries → mice → black bear
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• Each organism in a food chain is a feeding step, or trophic level in the movement of matter and energy.
• -Only 10% of energy is passed up each trophic level!!!
• -Because so much energy is lost at each trophic level, there can only be 3-4 steps in a food chain.
Energy Flow
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Pyramid of Energy
Heat
0.1% Consumers
1% Consumers
10% Consumers
100% Producers
decomposers feed at each
level.
Heat
Heat
Heat