ENERGY CYCLE Flashcards

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  • The ultimate source of energy (for most
    ecosystems) is the sun.
  • The ultimate fate of energy in ecosystems is for
    it to be lost as heat.
  • Energy and nutrients are passed from organism
    to an organism through the food chain is another.
  • Decomposers remove the last energy from the
    remains of an organism.
  • Inorganic nutrients are cycled, energy is not.
  • Flow of energy in an ecosystem is unidirectional
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Energy Cycle

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  • the sequence of who eats whom in a biological
    community (an ecosystem) to obtain nutrition.
  • it shows how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients
    and energy are passed from creature to creature.
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Food Chain

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