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Energy Flow in Food Chains, Food Webs, & Energy Pyramids Mrs. Joelle R. King Science Teacher

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Energy Flow in Food Chains, Food Webs, & Energy

Pyramids

Mrs. Joelle R. KingScience Teacher

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SC Indicator 7-4.2

Illustrate energy flow in food chains, food webs, and energy

pyramids.

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Prior Knowledge• In 3rd grade you learned about simple

food chains, including the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers.

• In 5th grade you identified the roles of organisms as they interacted and depended on one another through food chains and food webs in an ecosystem.

• You learned a lot in 5th grade. Let’s review what you learned.

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In 5th Grade…• You learned about producers and

consumers like herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.

• You learned about decomposers like microorganisms, termites, worms, and fungi.

• You learned about the roles of predators and prey.

• You also learned about parasites and their hosts.

• Wow! You really learned a lot in 5th grade.

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Future Learning• In high school biology you will learn

how to calculate the amount of energy transferred from one level to another in an energy pyramid.

• You will also learn the roles that organisms play in the geochemical cycles (such as the carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, and water cycle).

• You will learn more about predation, competition, and symbiotic relationships as well.

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Essential Question

What does a food chain show us?

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Essential Question

How is a food web different from a food

chain?

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Essential Question

How is a food chain or food web related to owl pellets?

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Essential Question

How does energy flow through an ecosystem?

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Essential Question

How does the amount of energy change as it moves

through an energy pyramid?

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Food Chains• Food chains use pictures or words

and arrows to show the movement of energy through the trophic levels of organisms.

• The trophic level of an organism indicates the position that the organism occupies in the food chain.

• It shows what it eats and what eats it.

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Producers & Consumers

The levels are numbered according to how far the particular organism is along the chain.

• Producers are at level 1. (Plants are producers because they produce their own food.)

• Herbivores are at level 2. (consumer)• Predators are at level 3. (consumer)

And so on…

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Anything that cannot make its own food must eat to

survive.

It must “consume” its food!

It is a consumer.

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The owl eats the snake

that ate the frog that ate

the caterpillar

that ate the flower.

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Follow the food chain from producer to top level

consumer.

Note: There’s something

wrong.What is it?

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FOX EATS RABBIT THAT ATE PLANT.

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Why does this look more like a “cycle” than a chain?

Let’s discuss this one in detail.

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Why is the SUN in this

picture?

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In this food chain, what is the producer?

What is the first level consumer?

What is the second level consumer?

Is the polar bear the 3rd level consumer? Explain.

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This picture shows the trophic levels.

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TrophicLevels

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Food Webs• Food webs describe the organisms

found in interconnecting food chains using pictures or words and arrows.

• In other words, food webs are a bunch of food chains all together!

• They describe the complex patterns of energy flow in an ecosystem by modeling who consumes whom or what.

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Let’s follow a few food

chains found in this food

web.

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There are a lot of arrows

here, but they’re easy to follow.

Try it.

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Food Webs are EASY!

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Energy Pyramids• An energy pyramid shows the

amount of energy that moves from one trophic level to another in a food chain.

• The most energy is available at the producer level of the pyramid.

• The availability of energy decreases as it moves up the energy pyramid.

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The most energy is at the producer level – the base of the pyramid.

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The Energy Pyramid

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Who needs the most energy to survive?

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EnergyPyramid

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Awesome Web Site!

http://science-class.net/Ecology/energy_transfer.htm

•Let’s take a look at the above web site relating to ecology and energy transfer.

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Another Cool Sitehttp://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/food_menu.html

After we look at the above web site, we’ll go on to view the BrainPop video entitled FOOD CHAINS.

The BrainPop videos provide further enrichment of topics discussed in class and are interesting as well as easy to understand!

www.brainpop.com

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Making a Model Let’s make a model of an energy pyramid.

The model you will construct will be simple. It will show pictures of the producers and consumers at each level, the names in words, and the trophic levels.

The good news is that this model really is perfect for meeting our objectives relating to energy pyramids.

Make sure you follow all instructions for proper completion of the model.

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Acknowledgements• All pictures were obtained from various

sources on Google Images.• None of the pictures/illustrations are

mine.• Credit is given to all

artists/photographers for their work.