https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa en-us 2018-11-29 15:52:32 UTC 2025-10-01 12:39:59 UTC hello@padlet.com cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309368671 Algae that is eaten by the detrtivores, or decomposers, which are shrimp in this case.

Producers are the organisms, or plants, that get their energy from the sun and are the basis for the flow of energy throughout a food chain.]]> 2018-11-29 16:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309368671 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309372133 A larger consumer, in this instance a fish, eats the producer and obtains the energy from the plants.

The primary consumer is a herbivore that gets energy from the producers, and in some cases, eat the detritivores. They are eaten by the secondary consumers. ]]> 2018-11-29 16:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309372133 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309372848 Another animal, probably a bird, eats the second consumer and gets the energy from them.

The secondary consumer is the second to last consumer that eats the primary consumer and is eaten by the tertiary consumer. This consumer can be classified as either a carnivore or omnivore.]]> 2018-11-29 16:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309372848 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309373439 The last consumer, in this case a crocodile, eats the bird, getting that energy from the bird that has been passed on through the chain.

The tertiary consumer is the last consumer of the food chain, usually the largest animal but smallest population.]]> 2018-11-29 16:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309373439 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309374916 The detritivores also act as the decomposers, eating the dead plant matter known as detritus, as well as dead animal matter.]]> 2018-11-29 16:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309374916 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309377926 The food web for this ecosystem is similar to this: plants/detritus - detritivores - fish - birds - crocodiles.]]> 2018-11-29 16:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309377926 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309380087 Biomass is the growth of an organism that occurs through obtaining energy. For the plants (or producers), they get their energy from the sun. A portion of that energy allows them to increase their biomass, or to grow. This is a similar process for animals, except their energy is obtained from the organisms they eat.]]> 2018-11-29 16:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309380087 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309384882 A portion of the energy an organism gets turns into waste, which they release from their bodies. For some ecosystems, other organisms can use that wasted energy, such as bugs eating the droppings that an organism released.]]> 2018-11-29 16:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309384882 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309832792 Part of the energy an organism obtains is released through the heat their body gives off. ]]> 2018-11-30 15:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309832792 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309833298 Cell Respiration is the process of creating energy from nutrients obtained from eating a previous organism. This also then releases the waste products.]]> 2018-11-30 15:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/309833298 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/310965210 Photosynthesis is the process in which the producers convert light energy into chemical energy that they use.]]> 2018-12-04 15:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/310965210 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/310974491 The carbon cycle is the cycle in which carbon compounds and carbon dioxide is converted into the environment through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels, to where the carbon dioxide is returned to the environment.

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/crash-course-bio-ecology/crash-course-ecology-2/v/crash-course-ecology-08]]> 2018-12-04 16:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/310974491 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/310979739 An ecological pyramid is a visual representation of the transfer of energy from organism to organism. At the bottom is the producers, followed by the smaller tier of the primary consumers. After that is the secondary consumers, and then at the top is the tertiary consumers. At the bottom, not always pictures, is the sun, which gives the producers energy. ]]> 2018-12-04 16:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/310979739 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/311406798 As explained in a few of these slides, the energy flows through a food chain by the consumption of the previous organism.
For example, if the secondary consumer eats the primary consumer, the secondary consumer obtains the energy from the primary consumer, who had gotten their energy from the producers, who got their energy from the sun. This food chain shows the energy flow from organism to organism.]]> 2018-12-05 15:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/311406798 cb22154 https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/311412087 Primary Productivity is the rate at which plants and other organisms produce organic compounds in an ecosystem.]]> 2018-12-05 15:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lisle202/lfjxp6onycwa/wish/311412087