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Section 1: Energy Flow in Ecosystems Preview Classroom Catalyst Objectives Life Depends on the Sun From Producers to Consumers An Exception: Deep-Ocean Ecosystems What Eats What Cellular Respiration: Burning the Fuel

Section 1: Energy Flow in Ecosystems Preview Energy Transfer Food Chains and Food Webs Trophic Levels Energy Pyramids How Energy Loss Affects An Ecosystem

Classroom Catalyst

Objectives Describe how energy is transferred from the sun to producers and then to consumers. Describe one way in which consumers depend on producers. Identify two types of consumers. Explain how energy transfer in a food web is more complex than energy transfer in a food chain. Explain why an energy pyramid is a representation of trophic levels.

Life Depends on the Sun Energy from the sun enters an ecosystem when plants use light energy to make sugar molecules. This happens through a process called photosynthesis.

Life Depends on the Sun Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce carbohydrates and oxygen.

From Producers to Consumers Because plants make their own food, they are called producers. A producer is an organism that can make organic molecules from inorganic molecules. Producers are also called autotrophs, or self-feeders.

From Producers to Consumers Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms are called consumers. A consumer is an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter instead of producing its own nutrients or obtaining nutrients from inorganic sources. Consumers are also called heterotrophs, or other-feeders.

From Producers to Consumers Some producers get their energy directly from the sun by absorbing it through their leaves. Consumers get their energy indirectly by eating producers or other consumers.

An Exception: Deep-Ocean Ecosystems Deep-ocean communities of worms, clams, crabs, mussels, and barnacles exist in total darkness on the ocean floor, where photosynthesis cannot occur. The producers in this environment are bacteria that use hydrogen sulfide present in the water. Other underwater organisms eat the bacteria or the organisms that eat the bacteria.

What Eats What? Organisms can be classified by what they eat. Types of Consumers: Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores Decomposers

What Eats What

Cellular Respiration: Burning the Fuel An organism obtains energy from the food it eats. This food must be broken down within its body. The process of breaking down carbohydrates to yield energy is called cellular respiration. Cellular respiration occurs inside the cells of most organisms.

Cellular Respiration: Burning the Fuel During cellular respiration, cells absorb oxygen and use it to release energy from food. Through cellular respiration, cells use glucose (sugar) and oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy.

Cellular Respiration: Burning the Fuel Part of the energy obtained through cellular respiration is used to carry out daily activities. Excess energy is stored as fat or sugar.

Energy Transfer Each time an organism eats another organism, an energy transfer occurs. This transfer of energy can be traced by studying food chains, food webs, and trophic levels.

Food Chains A food chain is a sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another organism.

Food Chains

Food Webs Ecosystems, however, almost always contain more than one food chain. A food web shows many feeding relationships that are possible in an ecosystem.

Food Webs

Trophic Levels Each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or food web is known as a trophic level. A trophic level is one of the steps in a food chain or food pyramid; examples include producers and primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers.

Trophic Levels Each time energy is transferred, some of the energy is lost as energy in the form of heat. Therefore, less energy is available to organisms at higher trophic levels. One way to visualize this is with an energy pyramid.

Energy Pyramid

Energy Pyramid Each layer of the pyramid represents one trophic level. Producers form the base of the energy pyramid, and therefore contain the most energy. The pyramid becomes smaller toward the top, where less energy is available.

How Energy Loss Affects an Ecosystem Decreasing amounts of energy at each trophic level affects the organization of an ecosystem. Energy loss affects the number of organisms at each level. Energy loss limits the number of trophic levels in an ecosystem.