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Energy Flow

Energy Flow . Matt Schouten, Christina Gates, Kari Chadwell. Energy In Our World . Everything requires some form of energy Plants Animals Humans Machines You name it. The Source of All Energy. The sun As simple as it may seem, the sun is the source of all life

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Energy Flow

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  1. Energy Flow Matt Schouten, Christina Gates, Kari Chadwell

  2. Energy In Our World Everything requires some form of energy • Plants • Animals • Humans • Machines • You name it

  3. The Source of All Energy • The sun • As simple as it may seem, the sun is the source of all life • Without it, the most basic forms of life would not exist

  4. Energy Flow Key Terms • Autotroph • Producer • Photosynthesis • Heterotroph • Consumer • Herbivore • Carnivore • Omnivore • Decomposer • Food web • Trophic level • Ecological pyramid • Biomass

  5. Autotrophs • Plants • Some algae • Certain bacteria • Can capture energy from the sun or chemicals and use it to produce food. • Lowest part of the cycle • Also known as producers due to self made food

  6. Photosynthesis • Autotrophs capture solar energy through the process of photosynthesis. • CO2 + H2O + photons → C6H12O6 + O2

  7. Heterotrophs Different types of heterotrophs: • Herbivores - Vegetation • Omnivores - Meat and Vegetation • Carnivores - Meat • Detritivores - Decaying organic matter • Organisms that rely on other organisms to survive • Known as consumers • Cannot acquire energy from the sun • Energy flows from sun to organism to organism

  8. Energy Flow • Energy flows through the ecosystem in one direction • Flows from the sun to autotrophs and then to heterotrophs

  9. Energy Flow • Food chain - organisms transferring energy by eating or being eaten • The energy stored by producers is passed along through the food chain.

  10. Energy Flow • In most ecosystems the relationships are more complex • These more complex relationships are defined as food webs.

  11. Energy Flow • The ecological pyramidshows the relative amounts of energy or matter. • Producers make up the first level • Consumers make up the second, third and higher

  12. Energy Flow • Only about 10% of the energy available within one trophic level is transferred to organisms at the next trophic level. • Biomass is the total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level.

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  14. Links • science.jrank.org/pages/6977/Trophic-Levels.html • http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/ • http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/biomass_basics_faqs.html • http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm • www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0805420.html • science.jrank.org/pages/3329/Heterotroph.html • www.teachersdomain.org/3-5/sci/life/oate/energyflow/index.html

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