Energy Flow in Ecosystems

The sequence of who eats who in a biological community to obtain nutrition

• Carrying Capacity

• Ecosystem

• Food Chain

• Limiting Factor

Consists of all the living things in an area, as well as the nonliving parts of the environment.

• Carnivore

• Ecosystem

• Habitat

• Population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that breaks down organic matter

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Herbivore

• Producer

Organism that cannot create energy-rich molecules but obtains its food by eating other organisms.

• Carnivore

• Consumer

• Herbivore

• Producer

An organism whose diet is made up of both meat and plants

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

Organisms, such as green plants and algae, that use an outside source of energy like the sun to create food molecules.

• Carnivore

• Consumer

• Omnivore

• Producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organism whose diet is made up of plants also known as a primary consumer

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Organism whose diet is made up of meat

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

Nonliving factors that help an ecosystem survive

• Abiotic

• Biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organisms that don't produce their own food, and must get it by eating other organisms.

• Autotrophs

• Heterotrophs

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3