Energy Flow in Ecosystems

Living things within an ecosystem (plants, animals).

• Biotic Factors

• Limiting Factor

• Carry Capacity

• Abiotic Factors

A chain which shows how energy flows from one organism to the next in an ecosystem.

• Food chain

• Food Web

An organism that only eats producers (plants).

• producer

• consumer

• omnivore

• herbivore

Non-living parts of ecosystem (air, water, soil, sun)

• Ecosytsem

• Abiotic Factors

• Biotic Factors

• Niche

All the living organisms that live in an area and the nonliving features of their environment.

• Habitat

• Niche

• Biomes

• Ecosystem

Largest number of individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can support over time.

• Carrying Capacity

• Limiting Factor

An organism that makes its own food using the energy of the sun, carbon dioxide and water.

• consumer

• producer

• herbivore

• omnivore

An organism that cannot make its own food and therefore needs to eat other organisms.

• consumer

• producer

An organism that consumes wastes and dead organisms.

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Decomposer

• Producer

A complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships.

• Food chain

• Food web