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Food Chains, food webs and energy pyramids

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A food chain shows how we are all connected by what we eat

Notice the arrow direction!! A food chain shows the path of energy from one living thing to another. The arrows show the direction of energy not who's eating who.

So the bird is eating the butterfly. The energy is flowing to the bird.

(Photosynthesis) Radiant energy is converted to chemical energy and passed on to other organisms in the ecosystem. Energy passes from Sun to Producers to consumers

A food chain always starts with a Producer or Autotroph.

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A food web is several connected food chains Food Chain Food Web http: //www. bigelow. org/edhab/images/food_web. jpg

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Energy Pyramid http: //www. waterprisms. com/shop/Cartpix/Pyramid. Lamps. Anasazi. Sun. JPG

Chains can also be arranged in an energy pyramid. Producers are on the bottom because they have the most energy http: //www. westone. wa. gov. au/k 12 lrcd/learning_areas/geography/geog 2 B/content/cell 4_spatial_impact/images/se 751_idea 04_pic 04. gif

Least mass Least Energy 3 rd to eat Tertiary Consumer 2 nd to eat Secondary Consumer First to eat Primary Consumer Most mass Producer Most energy

http: //www. world-builders. org/lessons/less/biomes/deciduous/decfor/dec-py. gif

Pyramid of Energy Heat 0. 1% Consumers 10% Consumers Heat http: //www. glencoe. com/qe/images/b 153/q 4715/ch 02_0_e. gif 100% Producers

Pyramid of Numbers 3 30 3000 Fox/Tertiary Consumer Birds/Secondary Consumer Grasshoppers/Primary Consumer Grasses/Producer http: //www. glencoe. com/qe/images/b 153/q 4715/ch 02_0_e. gif

Herbivore Primary Consumer Heterotroph Secondary Consumer Omnivore Heterotroph Producer Autotroph Heterotroph Decomposer Carnivore Tertiary Consumer

Removing an organism from the chain or pyramid will cause great harm and the closer it is to the beginning or bottom the worse it is.