The document discusses food chains and trophic levels within ecosystems. It defines producers as autotrophs that create their own food through photosynthesis, such as grass. Primary consumers or herbivores, such as rabbits, eat the producers. Secondary consumers or carnivores, like hawks, consume the primary consumers. Decomposers such as bacteria break down dead organisms and cycle nutrients in the ecosystem. Most food chains interact forming complex food webs.
The document discusses food webs and food chains. It defines them as models that show feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. A food web consists of multiple interconnected food chains, with producers like plants obtaining energy from the sun and consumers obtaining energy by eating other organisms. The document provides examples of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores, and explains how energy passes from producers to different levels of consumers in a food chain.
A food web is a more complex network, graphical model depicting the many food chains linked together to show the feeding relationships of organisms in an ecosystem.
Food web is an important ecological concept. Basically, food web represents feeding relationships within a community (Smith and Smith 2009)
Dr. K. Rama Rao
Govt. Degree College
TEKKALI; Srikakulam Dt. A. P
This document provides an overview of ecosystems, including key concepts like trophic levels, producers, consumers, decomposers, and energy flow. It discusses the laws of thermodynamics and how energy is transferred less efficiently at each trophic level. Producers, consumers, and decomposers are defined. Biochemical cycles like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen are summarized. Food chains and webs are described, as well as ecological pyramids of biomass and numbers, which show decreasing biomass and numbers at higher trophic levels.
1) The document discusses food chains and food webs, including how energy flows between producers, consumers, and decomposers.
2) It defines herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and their roles within food chains. It also explains how humans can disrupt natural food chains through activities like deforestation, pesticide use, and overhunting.
3) The document is intended to teach students about ecological concepts like producers and consumers, and how human activities can negatively impact ecosystems.
The document defines key terms related to food chains and food webs, including producers, consumers, decomposers, trophic levels, and ecological pyramids. It explains that plants are producers that make their own food, while consumers eat other organisms and are divided into primary, secondary, tertiary, and sometimes quaternary levels. Decomposers break down waste and release nutrients. Food webs show interconnected food chains and the flow of energy and matter through an ecosystem.
A food chain shows how organisms obtain energy and nutrients by consuming other organisms. Food chains begin with autotrophs, like plants, that produce their own food. Herbivores then eat the plants, and carnivores eat the herbivores or other carnivores. This continues with increasing trophic levels until reaching top predators with no natural predators. At each level some energy is lost, with decreasing amounts of energy being passed to higher levels.
This document discusses food chains and food webs. It explains that a food chain begins with an energy source like a producer and is made up of different trophic levels including producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. Producers make their own food, primary consumers eat plants, secondary consumers eat herbivores, and tertiary consumers eat other carnivores.
The document discusses food chains and trophic levels within ecosystems. It defines producers as autotrophs that create their own food through photosynthesis, such as grass. Primary consumers or herbivores, such as rabbits, eat the producers. Secondary consumers or carnivores, like hawks, consume the primary consumers. Decomposers such as bacteria break down dead organisms and cycle nutrients in the ecosystem. Most food chains interact forming complex food webs.
The document discusses food webs and food chains. It defines them as models that show feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. A food web consists of multiple interconnected food chains, with producers like plants obtaining energy from the sun and consumers obtaining energy by eating other organisms. The document provides examples of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores, and explains how energy passes from producers to different levels of consumers in a food chain.
A food web is a more complex network, graphical model depicting the many food chains linked together to show the feeding relationships of organisms in an ecosystem.
Food web is an important ecological concept. Basically, food web represents feeding relationships within a community (Smith and Smith 2009)
Dr. K. Rama Rao
Govt. Degree College
TEKKALI; Srikakulam Dt. A. P
This document provides an overview of ecosystems, including key concepts like trophic levels, producers, consumers, decomposers, and energy flow. It discusses the laws of thermodynamics and how energy is transferred less efficiently at each trophic level. Producers, consumers, and decomposers are defined. Biochemical cycles like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen are summarized. Food chains and webs are described, as well as ecological pyramids of biomass and numbers, which show decreasing biomass and numbers at higher trophic levels.
1) The document discusses food chains and food webs, including how energy flows between producers, consumers, and decomposers.
2) It defines herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and their roles within food chains. It also explains how humans can disrupt natural food chains through activities like deforestation, pesticide use, and overhunting.
3) The document is intended to teach students about ecological concepts like producers and consumers, and how human activities can negatively impact ecosystems.
The document defines key terms related to food chains and food webs, including producers, consumers, decomposers, trophic levels, and ecological pyramids. It explains that plants are producers that make their own food, while consumers eat other organisms and are divided into primary, secondary, tertiary, and sometimes quaternary levels. Decomposers break down waste and release nutrients. Food webs show interconnected food chains and the flow of energy and matter through an ecosystem.
A food chain shows how organisms obtain energy and nutrients by consuming other organisms. Food chains begin with autotrophs, like plants, that produce their own food. Herbivores then eat the plants, and carnivores eat the herbivores or other carnivores. This continues with increasing trophic levels until reaching top predators with no natural predators. At each level some energy is lost, with decreasing amounts of energy being passed to higher levels.
This document discusses food chains and food webs. It explains that a food chain begins with an energy source like a producer and is made up of different trophic levels including producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. Producers make their own food, primary consumers eat plants, secondary consumers eat herbivores, and tertiary consumers eat other carnivores.
Food chains represent the transfer of energy from one organism to another as each consumes the next in line. A food web incorporates all possible food chains in an ecosystem and shows their interconnectivity. Producers, like plants, harness energy at the base of food chains while consumers, such as animals, feed on other organisms for sustenance and decomposers break down waste and remain into nutrients.
The document discusses food chains and food webs. It defines producers, consumers, and decomposers. It explains how energy and nutrients flow through ecosystems via trophic levels from primary producers to higher level consumers. Food webs are more complex than linear food chains and illustrate interconnecting feeding relationships in a community. Destabilizing food webs through human activities can negatively impact ecosystem functioning.
Food webs show the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. They can be represented topologically to simply show relationships, or as flow webs to show the strength of interactions. Examples of different food webs include soil food webs describing underground communities, aquatic food webs of water systems, and forest food webs comprising producers, consumers, and decomposers. Food webs are important because they distinguish producers and consumers, identify animal relationships and food sources, and provide stability to ecosystems by sustaining life.
This document provides information about ecology and the environment. It defines key ecological terms like environment, habitat, producers and consumers. It explains how organisms are adapted to their environments and how energy flows through ecosystems. Food chains and webs are described as the transfer of energy from producers, like plants, to primary, secondary and tertiary consumers. The document outlines different types of consumers - herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and detritivores. It also discusses trophic levels and explains that only about 10% of usable energy is transferred between each level.
Producers like plants are autotrophs that can produce their own food. There are three types of consumers - herbivores that eat plants, carnivores that eat meat, and omnivores that eat both plants and meat. Decomposers break down dead materials and waste to recycle nutrients back into the environment for producers. Together these organisms are linked in a feeding order of producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Plants are producers that make their own food through photosynthesis. Energy and nutrients are transferred as herbivores eat plants, and as carnivores consume herbivores and other carnivores, forming a food chain. A food web shows how different food chains interconnect as organisms fill different roles as producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, omnivores, or decomposers to cycle energy and matter in an ecosystem.
1) A food chain models the flow of energy from one living thing to the next as organisms consume each other. All food chains begin with producers, such as plants, that obtain energy from the sun.
2) If one organism in a food chain is removed, all other organisms in the chain are affected as the energy flow is disrupted.
3) Multiple interconnected food chains form a more complex food web. Like food chains, food webs also begin with energy from the sun and producers, and the removal of any organism can impact the entire web.
The document discusses the interdependence between living organisms through food chains, food webs, and nutrient cycles. It provides examples of how plants and animals rely on each other, with bees and flowers as a prime example. Decomposers like bacteria and fungi also play a key role in breaking down dead organisms and recycling nutrients. Any disruption in these complex interrelationships can have wide-reaching consequences on ecosystems.
The document describes the food chain and how energy from the sun is transferred through producers, consumers, and decomposers. It provides definitions of key terms and explains how photosynthesis allows plants to convert sunlight into food energy. Students are instructed to create two food chains using provided cutouts and explain how each step transfers energy. An extension activity challenges students to make their own long food chain and consider how extinction would affect the chain.
This document discusses food chains and food webs. It defines a food chain as the transfer of energy from one organism to another as one organism eats another. There are two main types of food chains: grazing and detritus. A food chain contains producers, consumers, and decomposers. Multiple interconnected food chains form a food web. Ecological pyramids illustrate the biomass, numbers, or energy at each trophic level and typically show decreasing amounts at higher levels.
Producers such as trees feed on sunlight and water and provide nutrients to other living things. Consumers include animals that are heterotrophic and eat other organisms to survive. There are three types of consumers: herbivores that eat producers, carnivores that eat other consumers as hunters or scavengers, and omnivores that eat producers, consumers, and sometimes decomposers. Decomposers such as fungi and bacteria decompose remains of other organisms and release nutrients into the soil. A food chain shows the relationships between producers, consumers, and decomposers.
A food chain shows how energy flows through an ecosystem. All food chains begin with the Sun providing energy to green plants, which are producers. Producers are then eaten by primary consumers like insects and herbivores. Secondary consumers eat primary consumers, and tertiary consumers eat other consumers. Food chains illustrate the relationships between organisms as energy passes from one to the next.
The document discusses terrestrial and aquatic food chains. It defines food chains as relationships among plants and animals, with terrestrial food chains including land organisms like insects and bears, and aquatic chains containing ocean animals such as plankton and sharks. Examples are given of both land and water food chains consisting of four organisms with a plant at the base and higher-level predators feeding on lower organisms. Students are instructed to diagram their own terrestrial and aquatic food chains including at least four labeled organisms each.
This document discusses feeding relationships and food webs in ecosystems. It defines key terms like producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and describes different types of interactions like commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism. Examples of each are provided. Food chains and food webs are explained, showing the transfer of energy from trophic level to trophic level. Energy pyramids, biomass pyramids, and pyramids of numbers are introduced to illustrate how energy and biomass decrease at higher trophic levels due to energy losses between levels. Sample questions are included for students to answer.
The document discusses food chains and trophic levels within ecosystems. It defines producers as autotrophs that generate energy through photosynthesis, such as grass. Herbivores, or primary consumers, eat producers. Carnivores, or secondary consumers, consume herbivores or other carnivores. Decomposers, like bacteria, break down dead organisms and cycle nutrients in the ecosystem. A food chain example is provided of the sun providing energy to grass, which is eaten by a grasshopper, then a toad, snake, and hawk. Most ecosystems contain many interconnected food chains that form food webs.
1st relationships & food chains: notes on energy flow: energy webs, pyramid...Robin Seamon
This document defines key terms related to food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids. It explains that energy from the sun is transferred through a food chain from producers to consumers. The number of organisms decreases at each level of an energy pyramid as more energy is used and stored, rather than transferred. Different biomes like polar regions, deserts, and forests each have their own characteristic food chains and webs.
The document discusses food chains and how energy passes from producers to consumers. It explains that plants get energy from photosynthesis, and are eaten by herbivores as primary consumers. Carnivores that eat herbivores are secondary consumers, and carnivores that eat other carnivores are tertiary consumers. Omnivores eat both plants and animals. Decomposers break down dead matter and release nutrients back into the food chain. The document provides examples of food chains and online resources for students to learn more.
This document discusses producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem. It begins by defining producers as organisms like plants that use photosynthesis to produce their own food from sunlight. There are four types of consumers: herbivores that eat producers, carnivores that eat other animals, omnivores that eat both, and decomposers like bacteria that break down dead organisms. The document provides examples of each and explains how energy flows from producers through consumers in a food chain and food web.
The document summarizes the marine food web. It discusses how food webs are made up of interconnected food chains and how energy flows from the sun to producers to consumers at different trophic levels. It provides examples of the different trophic levels in the marine planktonic food web, including phytoplankton as primary producers, zooplankton as primary consumers, small predators as secondary consumers, and top predators like fish and marine mammals. It also describes three types of marine food chains and how human impacts like overfishing and pollution can destabilize the marine ecosystem and food web.
The document defines key terms related to organisms and ecology, including organism, producer, decomposer, consumer, scavenger, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, community, population, affect vs effect, food chain, food web, and bioaccumulation. It provides examples for each term and explains producers make their own food through photosynthesis, decomposers break down dead organisms, consumers eat other organisms or their byproducts, and herbivores eat plants while carnivores eat animals and omnivores eat both. Food chains demonstrate energy transfer between organisms and food webs combine multiple chains in an ecosystem. Bioaccumulation occurs when substances build up in an organism over time.
The document defines key terms related to ecosystems, including habitats, populations, communities, species, and ecosystems. It discusses food chains and webs, explaining producers, consumers, and energy transfer. It also covers adaptations, biodiversity, behavioral adaptations in animals, and competition within ecosystems.
This PowerPoint lesson teaches 5th grade students about forest ecosystems and the complex interdependencies between plants and animals. The learning objective is for students to identify which organisms plants and animals depend on, and which depend on them, with 90% accuracy. Students will develop an understanding of the connections between organisms and how they rely on each other to survive through exploring examples of symbiotic, commensal, and parasitic relationships. Key concepts covered include food chains, food webs, and ecosystems.
Food chains represent the transfer of energy from one organism to another as each consumes the next in line. A food web incorporates all possible food chains in an ecosystem and shows their interconnectivity. Producers, like plants, harness energy at the base of food chains while consumers, such as animals, feed on other organisms for sustenance and decomposers break down waste and remain into nutrients.
The document discusses food chains and food webs. It defines producers, consumers, and decomposers. It explains how energy and nutrients flow through ecosystems via trophic levels from primary producers to higher level consumers. Food webs are more complex than linear food chains and illustrate interconnecting feeding relationships in a community. Destabilizing food webs through human activities can negatively impact ecosystem functioning.
Food webs show the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. They can be represented topologically to simply show relationships, or as flow webs to show the strength of interactions. Examples of different food webs include soil food webs describing underground communities, aquatic food webs of water systems, and forest food webs comprising producers, consumers, and decomposers. Food webs are important because they distinguish producers and consumers, identify animal relationships and food sources, and provide stability to ecosystems by sustaining life.
This document provides information about ecology and the environment. It defines key ecological terms like environment, habitat, producers and consumers. It explains how organisms are adapted to their environments and how energy flows through ecosystems. Food chains and webs are described as the transfer of energy from producers, like plants, to primary, secondary and tertiary consumers. The document outlines different types of consumers - herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and detritivores. It also discusses trophic levels and explains that only about 10% of usable energy is transferred between each level.
Producers like plants are autotrophs that can produce their own food. There are three types of consumers - herbivores that eat plants, carnivores that eat meat, and omnivores that eat both plants and meat. Decomposers break down dead materials and waste to recycle nutrients back into the environment for producers. Together these organisms are linked in a feeding order of producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Plants are producers that make their own food through photosynthesis. Energy and nutrients are transferred as herbivores eat plants, and as carnivores consume herbivores and other carnivores, forming a food chain. A food web shows how different food chains interconnect as organisms fill different roles as producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, omnivores, or decomposers to cycle energy and matter in an ecosystem.
1) A food chain models the flow of energy from one living thing to the next as organisms consume each other. All food chains begin with producers, such as plants, that obtain energy from the sun.
2) If one organism in a food chain is removed, all other organisms in the chain are affected as the energy flow is disrupted.
3) Multiple interconnected food chains form a more complex food web. Like food chains, food webs also begin with energy from the sun and producers, and the removal of any organism can impact the entire web.
The document discusses the interdependence between living organisms through food chains, food webs, and nutrient cycles. It provides examples of how plants and animals rely on each other, with bees and flowers as a prime example. Decomposers like bacteria and fungi also play a key role in breaking down dead organisms and recycling nutrients. Any disruption in these complex interrelationships can have wide-reaching consequences on ecosystems.
The document describes the food chain and how energy from the sun is transferred through producers, consumers, and decomposers. It provides definitions of key terms and explains how photosynthesis allows plants to convert sunlight into food energy. Students are instructed to create two food chains using provided cutouts and explain how each step transfers energy. An extension activity challenges students to make their own long food chain and consider how extinction would affect the chain.
This document discusses food chains and food webs. It defines a food chain as the transfer of energy from one organism to another as one organism eats another. There are two main types of food chains: grazing and detritus. A food chain contains producers, consumers, and decomposers. Multiple interconnected food chains form a food web. Ecological pyramids illustrate the biomass, numbers, or energy at each trophic level and typically show decreasing amounts at higher levels.
Producers such as trees feed on sunlight and water and provide nutrients to other living things. Consumers include animals that are heterotrophic and eat other organisms to survive. There are three types of consumers: herbivores that eat producers, carnivores that eat other consumers as hunters or scavengers, and omnivores that eat producers, consumers, and sometimes decomposers. Decomposers such as fungi and bacteria decompose remains of other organisms and release nutrients into the soil. A food chain shows the relationships between producers, consumers, and decomposers.
A food chain shows how energy flows through an ecosystem. All food chains begin with the Sun providing energy to green plants, which are producers. Producers are then eaten by primary consumers like insects and herbivores. Secondary consumers eat primary consumers, and tertiary consumers eat other consumers. Food chains illustrate the relationships between organisms as energy passes from one to the next.
The document discusses terrestrial and aquatic food chains. It defines food chains as relationships among plants and animals, with terrestrial food chains including land organisms like insects and bears, and aquatic chains containing ocean animals such as plankton and sharks. Examples are given of both land and water food chains consisting of four organisms with a plant at the base and higher-level predators feeding on lower organisms. Students are instructed to diagram their own terrestrial and aquatic food chains including at least four labeled organisms each.
This document discusses feeding relationships and food webs in ecosystems. It defines key terms like producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and describes different types of interactions like commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism. Examples of each are provided. Food chains and food webs are explained, showing the transfer of energy from trophic level to trophic level. Energy pyramids, biomass pyramids, and pyramids of numbers are introduced to illustrate how energy and biomass decrease at higher trophic levels due to energy losses between levels. Sample questions are included for students to answer.
The document discusses food chains and trophic levels within ecosystems. It defines producers as autotrophs that generate energy through photosynthesis, such as grass. Herbivores, or primary consumers, eat producers. Carnivores, or secondary consumers, consume herbivores or other carnivores. Decomposers, like bacteria, break down dead organisms and cycle nutrients in the ecosystem. A food chain example is provided of the sun providing energy to grass, which is eaten by a grasshopper, then a toad, snake, and hawk. Most ecosystems contain many interconnected food chains that form food webs.
1st relationships & food chains: notes on energy flow: energy webs, pyramid...Robin Seamon
This document defines key terms related to food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids. It explains that energy from the sun is transferred through a food chain from producers to consumers. The number of organisms decreases at each level of an energy pyramid as more energy is used and stored, rather than transferred. Different biomes like polar regions, deserts, and forests each have their own characteristic food chains and webs.
The document discusses food chains and how energy passes from producers to consumers. It explains that plants get energy from photosynthesis, and are eaten by herbivores as primary consumers. Carnivores that eat herbivores are secondary consumers, and carnivores that eat other carnivores are tertiary consumers. Omnivores eat both plants and animals. Decomposers break down dead matter and release nutrients back into the food chain. The document provides examples of food chains and online resources for students to learn more.
This document discusses producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem. It begins by defining producers as organisms like plants that use photosynthesis to produce their own food from sunlight. There are four types of consumers: herbivores that eat producers, carnivores that eat other animals, omnivores that eat both, and decomposers like bacteria that break down dead organisms. The document provides examples of each and explains how energy flows from producers through consumers in a food chain and food web.
The document summarizes the marine food web. It discusses how food webs are made up of interconnected food chains and how energy flows from the sun to producers to consumers at different trophic levels. It provides examples of the different trophic levels in the marine planktonic food web, including phytoplankton as primary producers, zooplankton as primary consumers, small predators as secondary consumers, and top predators like fish and marine mammals. It also describes three types of marine food chains and how human impacts like overfishing and pollution can destabilize the marine ecosystem and food web.
The document defines key terms related to organisms and ecology, including organism, producer, decomposer, consumer, scavenger, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, community, population, affect vs effect, food chain, food web, and bioaccumulation. It provides examples for each term and explains producers make their own food through photosynthesis, decomposers break down dead organisms, consumers eat other organisms or their byproducts, and herbivores eat plants while carnivores eat animals and omnivores eat both. Food chains demonstrate energy transfer between organisms and food webs combine multiple chains in an ecosystem. Bioaccumulation occurs when substances build up in an organism over time.
The document defines key terms related to ecosystems, including habitats, populations, communities, species, and ecosystems. It discusses food chains and webs, explaining producers, consumers, and energy transfer. It also covers adaptations, biodiversity, behavioral adaptations in animals, and competition within ecosystems.
This PowerPoint lesson teaches 5th grade students about forest ecosystems and the complex interdependencies between plants and animals. The learning objective is for students to identify which organisms plants and animals depend on, and which depend on them, with 90% accuracy. Students will develop an understanding of the connections between organisms and how they rely on each other to survive through exploring examples of symbiotic, commensal, and parasitic relationships. Key concepts covered include food chains, food webs, and ecosystems.
This document provides an overview of key concepts related to ecosystems, including definitions of ecosystem, population, community, habitat, trophic levels, food chains, food webs, biomass, energy pyramids, and decomposers. It also discusses how energy is lost at each trophic level as it is transferred between organisms, limiting the length and productivity of food chains. The learning outcomes indicate students should be able to define important terms, draw and label a food web, discuss food pyramids and energy transfer, and explain biomass and its role in ecosystems.
This document provides an overview of key concepts related to ecosystems, including definitions of ecosystem, population, community, habitat, trophic levels, food chains, food webs, biomass, energy pyramids, and decomposers. It also discusses how energy is lost at each trophic level as it is transferred between organisms, limiting the length and productivity of food chains. The learning outcomes indicate students should be able to define important terms, draw and label a food web, discuss food pyramids and energy transfer, and explain biomass and its role in ecosystems.
This document appears to be a lesson plan from a 5th grade science class covering topics related to ecosystems, food chains, and photosynthesis. It includes questions, reading passages, videos, experiments, and activities for students to learn about producers, consumers, decomposers, trophic levels, food webs, and the role of photosynthesis in producing energy for ecosystems. The lesson plan incorporates different methods like group work, debates, story writing and diagrams to engage students in understanding interactions within ecosystems.
Food chains-and-food-webs-1202604883662869-3Ety Sue
This document discusses food chains and food webs in an ecosystem. It explains that food chains show a single path of energy transfer between organisms in an ecosystem, such as producers being eaten by consumers and decomposers. A food web shows multiple interconnected food chains by depicting all the different energy transfers between organisms, such as various animals eating plants or other animals. The document provides examples of a food chain and food web to illustrate the difference and how they model energy movement through an ecosystem.
The document discusses key concepts around niches and interactions between species in an ecosystem. It defines niche as the role and habitat of a species, including biotic and abiotic factors. It explains that species compete for resources if their niches overlap too much. Specialized species have narrow niches and are more vulnerable to extinction from environmental changes. Convergent evolution and coevolution can cause different species to evolve similar traits to fill similar niches or as they interact and exert selection pressures on each other over time.
This document provides information about aquatic and terrestrial food webs. It discusses producers that get energy from photosynthesis, primary and secondary consumers that eat other organisms, and examples of connections between aquatic and land-based food chains like bears eating salmon. The document also notes that the first trophic level contains the most energy and that energy decreases at each subsequent trophic level as it is transferred between organisms in a food web.
This document provides instructions for an activity to examine interrelationships among plants, animals, and their environment through investigating food webs. The activity will have students find that ecosystems contain multiple overlapping food chains that form food webs, discover that organisms can be both predators and prey, and write a paragraph describing how a food web works by explaining that some animals serve as both predators and prey.
This document provides an overview of ecosystems and ecological concepts. It defines key terms like ecosystem, biotope, biocenosis, abiotic and biotic factors. It describes trophic levels, food chains and webs. It also explains different relationship types within ecosystems like competition, predation, parasitism and mutualism. Finally, it introduces different biomes and their characteristic climates and locations around the world. The objectives are to learn how ecosystems function and the interactions between living and nonliving components within specific biomes globally.
This document provides information about producers, consumers, food chains, and food webs. It outlines learning outcomes for a session that will define producers and consumers, as well as different types of consumers. It includes tasks that involve identifying food chains and food webs, describing the relationships between organisms, and explaining trophic levels in a marine food web. The session will also cover the processes of photosynthesis and respiration, and how energy and nutrients cycle through ecosystems.
This document discusses food chains and food webs, which show how energy moves through an ecosystem. A food chain represents a single path of energy transfer between organisms, such as from berries to rabbits to foxes. A food web shows multiple interconnected food chains and is more complex, illustrating all the different ways energy can move between producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem. Arrows are used to indicate the flow of energy from one organism to another. Examples of both food chains and webs are provided.
Food chains and food webs describe how energy moves through an ecosystem. A food chain represents a single path of energy transfer between organisms, such as from berries to rabbits to foxes. A food web shows multiple interconnected food chains and demonstrates that most organisms obtain energy from many different sources. Producers, like plants, capture energy from the sun to start the process, while consumers obtain energy by eating other organisms, and decomposers break down waste to recycle nutrients and energy back into the system.
This document discusses different levels of organization in living things and ecosystems. It begins by explaining that a system is made up of many interacting parts that work together for a purpose, using a bicycle with different components as an example. It then introduces the levels of organization from individual organisms to species to populations to communities within ecosystems. Ecosystems are defined as all the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact. Examples of ecosystems like grasslands, deserts, rainforests and bodies of water are provided.
The document discusses energy flow through ecosystems and food webs. It provides several field notes describing relationships between different organisms, such as plants being eaten by herbivores or smaller organisms being eaten by larger predators. It then explains that as energy moves through food chains and webs, the vast majority (around 90%) is lost as heat, so there is only about 10% of the original energy available at each trophic level. This pattern can be represented through an energy pyramid diagram.
This lesson plan introduces 5th grade students to food webs through examining the relationships between organisms in the African savanna ecosystem depicted in The Lion King. Over multiple days, students will view the film, discuss predator-prey relationships, identify producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers, create their own food webs, and collaborate to design a mural depicting the circle of life in the savanna ecosystem. Formative and summative assessments include homework, a board game, and the mural project.
This document provides an overview of feeding relationships in ecosystems through food chains and webs. It begins by defining objectives and key concepts like producers, consumers, autotrophs and heterotrophs. Examples of food chains show how energy and matter pass from plants to primary and secondary consumers. Food webs illustrate how organisms can be involved in multiple feeding relationships. The document suggests that removing any population, like hawks in one example, can disrupt an ecosystem's food web and affect other species.
This document provides information about ecosystems and their components. It defines key terms like ecosystem, habitat, biotic factors, abiotic factors, producers, consumers, decomposers, predators, prey, food chains, and food webs. It explains the roles of each in energy transfer within an ecosystem. Examples are given for producers like plants, consumers like herbivores and carnivores, and decomposers like fungi and bacteria. Larger ecosystem types like terrestrial and aquatic are identified, as are specific biomes like rainforests, grasslands, and deciduous forests. Factors that determine ecosystem size such as limiting factors and carrying capacity are also outlined.
Science 9 Unit A Biological Diversity Section1.2 Lesson InterdependenceShorin
1) The document discusses biological diversity and interdependence between species within an ecosystem. It defines key terms like niche and different types of symbiotic relationships between species like mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
2) Species can coexist in the same habitat through resource partitioning, where they divide resources like occupying different areas of the same tree or feeding on different parts of the tree.
3) Variation within species enables closely related organisms to survive in the same ecosystem by occupying different niches.
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
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hematic appreciation test is a psychological assessment tool used to measure an individual's appreciation and understanding of specific themes or topics. This test helps to evaluate an individual's ability to connect different ideas and concepts within a given theme, as well as their overall comprehension and interpretation skills. The results of the test can provide valuable insights into an individual's cognitive abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills
Authoring a personal GPT for your research and practice: How we created the Q...Leonel Morgado
Thematic analysis in qualitative research is a time-consuming and systematic task, typically done using teams. Team members must ground their activities on common understandings of the major concepts underlying the thematic analysis, and define criteria for its development. However, conceptual misunderstandings, equivocations, and lack of adherence to criteria are challenges to the quality and speed of this process. Given the distributed and uncertain nature of this process, we wondered if the tasks in thematic analysis could be supported by readily available artificial intelligence chatbots. Our early efforts point to potential benefits: not just saving time in the coding process but better adherence to criteria and grounding, by increasing triangulation between humans and artificial intelligence. This tutorial will provide a description and demonstration of the process we followed, as two academic researchers, to develop a custom ChatGPT to assist with qualitative coding in the thematic data analysis process of immersive learning accounts in a survey of the academic literature: QUAL-E Immersive Learning Thematic Analysis Helper. In the hands-on time, participants will try out QUAL-E and develop their ideas for their own qualitative coding ChatGPT. Participants that have the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription can create a draft of their assistants. The organizers will provide course materials and slide deck that participants will be able to utilize to continue development of their custom GPT. The paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus is not required to participate in this workshop, just for trying out personal GPTs during it.
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
Immersive Learning That Works: Research Grounding and Paths ForwardLeonel Morgado
We will metaverse into the essence of immersive learning, into its three dimensions and conceptual models. This approach encompasses elements from teaching methodologies to social involvement, through organizational concerns and technologies. Challenging the perception of learning as knowledge transfer, we introduce a 'Uses, Practices & Strategies' model operationalized by the 'Immersive Learning Brain' and ‘Immersion Cube’ frameworks. This approach offers a comprehensive guide through the intricacies of immersive educational experiences and spotlighting research frontiers, along the immersion dimensions of system, narrative, and agency. Our discourse extends to stakeholders beyond the academic sphere, addressing the interests of technologists, instructional designers, and policymakers. We span various contexts, from formal education to organizational transformation to the new horizon of an AI-pervasive society. This keynote aims to unite the iLRN community in a collaborative journey towards a future where immersive learning research and practice coalesce, paving the way for innovative educational research and practice landscapes.
2. we will learn today
Construct food webs to know the
eating habits of living things in
contrasting habitats eg. Garden and
desert.
3. By end of
the lesson
students
would be
able to
Tell what are prey and predators
What an arrows represent in a food web
Differentiate between food chain and food web
to construct a food web
To tell different food webs in a different habitats
4. Let's recall
what we
studied in
last lesson
Can you recall what are producers?
Can you construct one quick food chain
Can you recall what are Consumers?
Can you construct a food chain quickly
Please write your answers in chat box.
5. Let’s have a quick
recap on
producers
and
consumers
9. Arrow shows what in a
food chain ?
Arrows are used to show the
feeding relationship between
the animals.
The arrow points from the
organism being eaten to the
organism that eats it.
10. Prey and
predator
Predator- An
animal that
captures and
eats other
animals
Prey- The
animal that is
captured and
eaten
Predator-prey
relations refer to the
interactions
between two
species where one
species is the
hunted food source
for the other.
The organism that
feeds is called the
predator and the
organism that is fed
upon is the prey.
11. Food web
Today we will learn about food web
Food web is a connection of multiple food chains.
Food chain follows a single path whereas food web follows multiple
paths. From the food chain, we get to know how organisms are
connected with each other.
Food chain and food web form an integral part of this ecosystem.
Let us take a look at the food chain and a food web and the difference
between them.
12.
13. Let's see the difference
between food chain and
food web
15. Food chains in different habitats
Food chain depends on habitat animals are in, like for desert the plants and
animals are different than of sea. So food chain would be different
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html#foodchains ( lets learn with teacher)
Click on next button on top
Click on any habitat to learn about food chain of that habitat
Example of seashore habitat
19. Look at this one
Can you tell who is producer
here
Can you name some primary
consumers in this food web?
Name prey and predator?
Please type your answers in
chat box
20. Task to do
Draw and construct a neat food web, label producers,
consumers, prey and predator in your neat science
copies
Do workbook page number 7 ( last one is done for
you )
Grass ------- Antelope ------- Cheetah
Open the link of padlet wall and write one thing you learned today about
food web, foo chain. Make sure you click on pink plus sign on bottom
right corner, do mention your name and section
https://padlet.com/zainabshiram75495/f793ty5nxe0o0g7y
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/arctic_
vity.html
Let's play an online game to test your knowledge,
need to have flash player to play this game