Energy Flow
Energy Pyramid
Organisms use 10% of there energy for different processes and the rest is lost in the form of heat. The pyramid starts with producers at the bottom, which have 100% energy, then goes up to first level consumers, or the things that eat the producers, they only get 10% of the energy because the producers use the rest. Next it continues up to second level consumers they get 1% of energy from the original producers energy. Next we have Third level consumers which get 0.1% of the original producers energy. Lastly we have Fourth level consumers they get only 0.01% of the original producers energy.
Producer organisms are extremely relied on by the rest of the pyramid, they also have the greatest amount of biomass at the bottom of the pyramid. The organisms which are at the rest of the pyramid belong to the feeding levels in each level listed.
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Producer organisms are extremely relied on by the rest of the pyramid, they also have the greatest amount of biomass at the bottom of the pyramid. The organisms which are at the rest of the pyramid belong to the feeding levels in each level listed.
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Producers
Producers are known as autotrophs because they can produce there own food from the sun. In the energy pyramid the producer level is the most important level of all , if the producers weren't able to feed themselves through the sun then the other levels would never have a food supply , so each level relies on the producers level.
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Consumers
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Consumers are known as heterotrophs this is because they cannot produce there own food. Consumers consists of herbivores,carnivores,and decomposers because they all eat each other or other things. None of them can produce there own food and rely on other levels to live.
Food Chain?
Producers store energy when they make there own food and absorb the light of the sun. When producers store that energy the food chain is born, because a herbivore can come and eat that producer then the carnivore can eat the herbivore and the decomposer can eat the carnivore, so the energy from the producer essentially goes to the decomposer.