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WRITE OUT THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER

1.An organism that can make its own food is called ___________________

2.________________ break down wastes and dead organisms and return the
raw materials to the ecosystem.
3.Consumers that eat only meat are called ______________.
4.An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organism is a
__________________.
5.A ____________ is a series of events in which one organism eats another
organism and obtains energy.

Take out
1. CH 21-3&4 Vocab
2. CH21-3&4 SRQs
3. CH 21 RR

Chapter 22
Ecosystems and Biomes

I. Energy Flow in
Ecosystems

A. Energy Roles
* ecosystem roles are based on the way
organisms obtain energy
* energy enters most ecosystems as
sunlight

1. Producers
a. producers can make own food
b. are the source of all the food in an ecosystem

2. Consumers
a. cannot make their own food
b. feed on other organisms
c. classified by what they eat:

* herbivores - eat only plants

* carnivores - eat only animals

* omnivores - eat both plants and animals

* scavengers feed on the bodies of

dead organisms

3. Decomposers
a. break down wastes and dead organisms
b. return raw materials back to ecosystem

1. What are the three things that help energy flow through
the ecosystem?
2. How do they help it flow through the ecosystem?

What do herbivores and

carnivores have in common?

Both feed on other organisms.

B. Food Chains and Food

* diagrams that show the movement of
Webs
energy
through an ecosystem

1. Food Chains
a. series of events in which one
organism eats another
b. first organism in a food chain is
always a producer
producer

decomposer
consumers

c. levels:
producer
first-level consumer
second-level
consumer
third-level consumer
fourth-level consumer

fourth-level
consumers

third-level
consumers

second-level
consumers

first-level
consumers

producers

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1. What are the three things that help energy
flow through the ecosystem?
2. How do they help it flow through the
ecosystem?
3. How many different types of consumers are
there?
4. What are there names?
5. What do herbivores and carnivores have in
common?

Identify the
food chains in
this picture.

How many
food chains
are there?

2. Food Webs
a. consist of many overlapping food chains
b. an organism may play more than one role

What energy role is filled by

the first organism in a food
chain?
fourth-level
consumers

third-level
consumers

second-level
consumers

first-level
consumers

producers

The first organism in a food chain is a

producer.

C. Energy Pyramids

1. the amount of energy that moves from

one feeding level to another in a food web
a. the most energy available is at the
producer level
b. less energy is available as you move
up the pyramid (10x)
c. The energy pyramid is useful to shows how
available
energy decreases at higher levels
third-level
consumers

second-level
consumers
first-level
consumers

producers

10 kcal

100 kcal

1,000 kcal
10,000 kcal

Why is the pyramid shape

useful for showing the energy
available at each of the levels
in a food web?

The shape shows how available energy

decreases at higher levels of a food web.

Assignment
Finish 5 Sentence Summary
Finish CH22-1 SRQ
Pg. 745 #1a-3c (8 problems)