Energy Flow in Ecosystems - Spring 23

An organism that must consume other organisms for nutrients.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Parasite

• Decomposer

Organisms such as bacteria and fungi that break down the remains of dead plants and animals without need for internal digestion

• Decomposers

• Consumer

• Predator

• Producer

A system comprising all the biotic and abiotic factors in an area and all the interactions among them

• Ecosystem

• Environment

• Tundra

• Environmental Interactions

Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

• Deciduous Forest

• Energy Transfer

Organisms that transform energy from the Sun and use carbon dioxide and water to make food

• Producers

• Decomposers

• Photosynthesis

• Consumers

The position an organism occupies on the food web

• Trophic Level

• Consumer

• Apex Predator

• Food Chain

Organism that obtains energy by eating only plants

• Herbivore

• Mrs. Wong

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

Organism that obtains energy by eating both plants and animals

• Omnivore

• Andrissa

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

Organism that obtains energy by eating animals

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Decomposer

• Herbivore

How does the eagle directly obtain its energy?

• From the snake or butterfly

• From the snake or frog

• From the raccoon

• From producers