Energy Flow through Ecosystems
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What roles do organisms play in a food web?
Producers Create their own food using sun’s energy Start energy flow
Consumers Eat other organisms to get their energy Herbivores, Omnivores, Carnivores
Decomposers• Break down dead plants, animals, and waste
and return nutrients to the ecosystem
What is a food chain?
Shows how living things get their energy
It is linear.
Using cards build a food web for Waikoloa community.
What is a food web?
Show how energy moves through a community
Shows how organisms are interconnected in the community
Made up of food chains
Notes on Drawing Food Webs
The arrow represents energy. Arrow goes to the organism that
does the eating because they get the energy.
Producers are base of the food web getting energy from the sun.
Practice
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm