Energy Pyramid
90%
Tertiary Consumer
Why only 10% of energy is transferred to the next trophic level
Food Chain
10%
Thermal Energy
Primary Consumer
Energy Transfer
Energy Transformation
Trophic Levels
Secondary Consumer
Producers
Food Web
Chemical Energy
Solar Energy
Type of energy lost to the environment in a food chain
A good way to show how energy moves from one feeding level to another in a food chain.
Amount of energy lost to the environment as heat OR used by the organism to stay alive
Type/form of energy each organism in a food chain is AND the form of energy passes along from one organism to another.
The amount of energy passed when one organism eats another in the next trophic level.
Different feeding positions in a food chain or web.
Eats herbivores to get energy and is in the second trophic level of the energy pyramid.
A possible start to the food chain and are in the first trophic level of an energy pyramid
Energy is lost due to the organism using energy for living, unusable heat loss, and waste
A group of overlapping food chains connected together in an ecosystem (complex).
When energy moves from one organism (object) to another organism (object).
series of steps in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy AND transfer matter by eating and being eaten
Eats producers to get energy and is in the first trophic level of the energy pyramid.
When energy changes from one type of energy to another (different) type of energy
Eats other carnivores or omnivores to get energy and is in the third energy level of the trophic level.
Original source of energy for a food chain
