Energy Flow In Ecosystem

Question 1

Food chains

Answer 1

These show the simplest transfer of energy and matter through an ecosystem.

Diagram
Always begins with a plant/part of a plant

Matter and energy are transferred along a chain.

Plant ➡️ herbivore➡️ carnivores ➡️ carnivores

Question 2

Producer ( Autotroph)

Answer 2

Organisms that produce their own food from non-living environment.

Question 3

Consumer (Heterotroph)

Answer 3

Organisms that eat other organisms or their products

Question 4

Food webs

Answer 4

Food webs show a more realistic and complex view of the relationships between the various organisms in the system.

Trophic levels

Energy is lost at every step

Question 5

Trophic pyramid

Answer 5

Demonstrates the relative abundance (biomass) of different levels of consumers.

Question 6

Food pyramids

Answer 6

They show the relative number and mass of various organisms in the food chain.

Question 7

The total mass of the living things in a food web.

Answer 7

Biomass

A certain mass of organisms in one feeding level will support a smaller mass of organisms in the next level.

Question 8

Decomposer

Answer 8

Special type of consumer that gets its energy by decomposing dead organisms (fungi and bacteria)

Question 9

Detritovore

Answer 9

A type of consumer that feeds on decaying matter