1. Lesson 5 Intro to Ecology Get out of the chain and into the web Food Chains, Webs, and Pyramids

2. Turn to your partner… 1) What is another word for a producer? 2) What is a land and water example? 3) What is another name for a consumer? Producer, Consumer, or Consumer Produce?

5. When you eat corn on the cob, what type of consumer are you? a)Primary b)Secondary c)Tertiary

6. When you eat corn on the cob, what type of consumer are you? a)Primary b)Secondary c)Tertiary

7. When you eat steak, what type of consumer are you? a)Primary b)Secondary c)Tertiary

8. When you eat steak, what type of consumer are you? a)Primary b)Secondary c)Tertiary

10. Remember- The arrow points to the Eater!!! Food Webs Lets analyze Impacts… What do the arrows represent?

11. Reviewing a bit... Turn to your partner 1) What do the arrows represent? 2) What does a food web tell us?

15. Turn to your partner and answer this question… Question: How can it be that the energy used for moving your arm indirectly comes from the sun? ?

16. Turn to your partner and answer this question… What limits the length of a food chain?

17. What happens to energy that isnt used when when it is eaten? a.Lost in feces b.Lost as heat c.Lost in translation d.a and b only

20. Turn to your partner and explain… Question: Why is there always more producers than consumers, and always more 1 st level consumers than 2 nd level consumers.

21. Ecological Pyramids

22. 1)What is the efficiency? 2)In terms of population, what are there the most of? Why? 3)Where is there the most biomass?