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Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
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Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
Summary:
A food chain is a simple diagram that shows one way energy flows through an ecosystem.
A food web consists of many overlapping food chains.
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Where does all the food in an ecosystem ultimately come from?
What does a pyramid of energy show about the amount of energy available at different trophic levels of a food chain?
What is an herbivore, decomposer, second-order heterotroph, third-order heterotroph?
What are energy pyramids and food webs?
How do nutrients move through an ecosystem?
Is a wolf an apex predator?
About how much energy would be transferred to tertiary consumers if the producers begin with 25,000 kilocalories?
Why do you think that organisms on higher trophic levels tend to be larger?
Is a wolf at the top trophic level?
What is the difference between how plants and animals get energy?
What is a food web?
What is a tropical rainforest food web?