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Energy is passed from producers to consumers to decomposers in a?
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When energy is passed from organic molecules from producers to consumers what best describes this process?
pyramid of energy
How does the biogeochemical cycle work?
Example Producers ----- Consumers ----- Secondary consumers ----- Decomposers ------ Soil ----- Producers ----- (And so on)
What obtains energy from producers?
All consumers obtain energy from producers. This is true even for carnivores because the energy is passed through every organism.
How much energy is transfered between consumers and producers?
Only about 10% of the energy from the producer is passed on to the consumer.
What happens to the amount of energy as it passed from producers to the first order consumers then to the second order consumers?
90% of the energy is lost every time something is consumed.
How does energy flow through community?
In the energy pyramid, 10% of the energy is passed up from producers, to 1st level consumers, to 2nd level consumers, etc. 90% of energy is lost.
How does the energy passed from organism to organism?
The food chain is the main way. There are three types of organism, producers, consumers, and decomposers. Producers are plants, who get their food from sunlight. Consumers are things that eat the plants, and things that eat other consumers. Decomposers eat dead things. They're like the garbage disposal of the world. So, a typical food chain would go grass --> cow --> human --> vulture. The closer you are to producers, the purer your energy source. It takes ten pounds of grain to produce one pound of cow for us to eat. And it takes a lot more human than that to feed a vulture. Mushrooms are another common decomposer, in areas without vultures.
Does all of producers energy go to consumers?
Yes, it starts with the producers - plants, then to the primary consumers - herbivores and omnivores, then to the carnivores then to the decomposers, which breaks down dead bodies into nutrients essential for plant growth.
How is the sun's energy passed along in an ecosystem?
The Sun's help from the sunlight helps the plants grow up
What do the Producers Provide?
Producers in an ecosystem create biomass from inorganic substances (nutrients from chemicals present in the soil, air, and the energy from sunlight). Once these substances have been created and incorporated into the producers themselves, they are passed along the food chain into the consumers. Without producers, consumers would inevitably die off from lack of nutrients.
Can you name four trophic levels?
1- Producers- make their own food (plants, photosynthetic bacteria, etc.) 2- Primary Consumers- eat the producers, small (rodents, bugs, etc.) 3- Secondary Consumers- eat the primary consumers (ex: snakes) 4- Tertiary Consumers- eat the secondary consumers, larger, (ex: owls, humans) There are not many trophic levels because only 10% of the energy available at one trophic level is passed on to the next level, and so the amount of energy available after many levels is not able to support many organisms.
What do primary consumers do in an ecosystem?
They consume the plants (producers) and obtain the most amount of nutrients and energy and then get eaten by the secondary consumers who obtain a little less energy since it is being passed down a line. Cows would be a primary who consumers grass that obtained energy and nutrients through photosynthesis and then we eat the cow (secondary) and gain what was left from the grass after the cow ate it and spent energy
