Ecosystems and Energy Flow

These cards will help students understand terms associated with ecosystems and will also help clarify how energy is passed through the levels within exosystems.

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Any non-living thing in and ecosystem
Abiotic factor
Provides the energy needed for autotrophs in an ecosystem
The sun
Any living thing that can make its own food in its own body
Autotroph (synonym: producer)
Organisms that eat plants or animals
Omnivore
The food source of primary consumers
Plants/ autotrophs
Five basic needs of all living things
Food, water, oxygen, temperature, pressure
Three examples of autotrophs
Rose, algae, tulip (etc.- any plants)
Any organism that cannot make its own food in its body and therfore must get its food fromm the environment
Heterotroph (synonym: consumer)
The two things needed for life to occur on Earth
1. flow of high quality energy from the sun 2. the recycling of nutrients and matter
All the living and non-living parts of an environment
Ecosystem
List 5 abiotic factors of an ecosystem
Temperature, sunlignt, water, soil, rocks (etc)
The amount of energy that is passed on to each higher level of the energy pyramid
10%
List three examples of heterotrophs
Reindeer, cow, elk, human, dog (etc.- anything that eats)
All the life on and around the Earth
Biosphere
All the living parts of an ecosystem
Biotic factors