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| Trophic Level: Primary Producers |
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Plants and photosynthetic bacteria/protists
AUTOTROPHS that get E from sun |
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| Photosynthesizers (plants and photosynthetic bacteria/protists) |
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| Consume directly or indirectly the E molecules made by the primary producers |
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| Trophic Level: Herbivores/primary consumers |
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| Gets E from eating tissues of primary producers Ex: grasshoppers, anchovies, deer, termites, moth larvae |
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| Trophic Level: Primary carnivores (secondary consumers) |
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Get E from eating Herbivores
Ex: spiders, warblers, wolves copepods |
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| Trophic Level: Secondary Carnivores (tertiary consumers) |
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Gets E from eating primary carnivores
Ex: Tuna, Falcons, Killer Whales |
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Gets E from eating several trophic levels
Ex: humans, opossums, crabs, robins |
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| Trophic Level: Detritivores |
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Decomposers, get E from eating dead bodies and waste products of other organisms
EX: fungi, many bacteria, Vultures, earthworms |
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| shows what eats what, makes us all interconnected to make a food web |
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| most communities have ___ to ___ trophic levels |
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| E is lost between trophic levels when |
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| One organism eats another one- E decreases as it flows from lower to higher levels |
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| Plants collect E from sun, Cow eats plant- some E is lost, Man eats the Cow- more E is lost... So E is ____ as you go UP the food chain so it's more efficient to eat foods ______ on the food chain |
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| Lost, Lower (less E is lost) |
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| First, Second and Third Trophic Levels are called |
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Producers (1st)
Herbivores (2nd)
Carnivores (3rd) |
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| More food available to an herbivore in a grassland or a forest? |
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| Zooplankton, anchovy or deer |
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| Ex of a Secondary consumer |
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| Wolf, or copepod (little shrimp) |
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| Phytoplankton or bacteria (cyanobacteria, the photosynthesizers) |
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| Detritivores include anything that |
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| RECYCLES waste into usable nutrients, CO2 or H2O |
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| Energy loss as you go up the trophic levels |
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| Productivity in E consumption among the different biomes |
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| who gets the most E out of the system, the detrivores or the Primary Consumer? |
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