The Flow of Energy in Ecosystems

All energy in an ecosystem comes from the sun. This energy is passed through the ecosystem as organisms eat other organsims.

• Ominvores

• Herbivores

• Detritivores

• Flow of energy

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating plants.

• Parasite

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Ominvore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating meat.

• Detritivore

• Ominvore

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

Organisms that produce their own food mostly through photosynthesis (producers). Examples are plants and algae.

• Ominvore

• Detritivore

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Organisms that get their energy and nutrition from other organisms (consumers).

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

• Detritivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Heterotrophs that get energy and nutrition from dead or decaying organisms or their waste products and recycle nutrients back to the ecosystem.

• Producer

• Trophic

• Decomposer

• Autotrooph

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Heterotrophs that “clean up” the ecosystem by eating dead and decaying organisms.

• Autotrophs

• Herbivores

• Ominvores

• Detritivores

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The level in an Ecological pyramid that includes all the organisms that share the same place in a food chain.

• Trophic Levels

• Toxic Levels

• KeKe Levels

• Environmental Systems

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Autotrophs--The bottom trophic level where all organisms produce their own food, usually by photosynthesis.

• Trophic Levels

• Producers

• Ominvores

• Herbivores

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Herbivores--The second trophic level where herbivores eat the primary producers.

• Detritivores

• Autotrophs

• Producers

• Primary Consumers