What is flow of energy in ecosystem?

Answer 1

Energy flows from one trophic level to the next (Producer->Primary Consumer->Secondary Consumer). Energy transfer becomes less efficient as it's being transferred; seeing as it is partly used by the organism for metabolic processes.

Answer 2

Sunlight->producers->primary consumers->secondary consumers->tertiary consumers->quaternary consumers

At every trophic level above "producers" you will have detrivores and decomposers.

Each trophic level receives less energy than the level below it, since the lower trophic level will have used some energy in living, and besides isn't 100% efficient. The figure many textbooks used for energy moving from one trophic level to the next higher is 10%. You can thus draw an "energy pyramid" of trophic levels. This would be similar to a "biomass pyramid" that you would draw.

The energy that is lost is lost as heat, and eventually radiated into space.

Answer 3

An organism can either be a producer or a consumer.

A producer does not eat another producer but gets it's energy from antibiotic factors such as the sun. Plants do this using photosynthesis.

Most animals are consumers, eating either plants or other animals to get energy. Herbivores are primary consumers, omnivores are secondary consumers and carnivores are tertiary consumers.But I`m not so sure....... :p

Answer 4

In an ecosystem, energy flows through trophic levels. The source of energy is the sun, which is used by organisms that can perform photosynthesis (plants, algae, etc.) which make up the first trophic level. The second trophic level is made up of primary consumers, or herbivores, that eat plants and use energy from the plants. The third trophic level is secondary consumers, or omnivores; The fourth trophic level is tertiary consumers/predators; The fifth trophic level is apex predators, and the sixth trophic level is made up of detritivores, like fungi, which feed off of all trophic levels from (dead) plants to other detritivores.

As energy moves through trophic levels, the quality decreases because some of it is given off as heat when the organism uses the energy. Correlating with this, the number of organisms in each trophic level decreases as the level increases (there are more plants than herbivores, more herbivores than predators, etc.; The only exception is detritivores in the sixth trophic level because they do feed off of all other levels instead of just the one before it). Only about 10% of energy passes between trophic levels (this is related to the 2nd Law of Energy).

Answer 5

The overall flow of energy through an ecosystem is called a food web, which is made of branching and inter-connected food chains. A food chain is a diagram representing the transfer of energy from one trophic level to another. A trophic level is an eating level in an ecosystem.

Answer 6

In an ecosystem energy flows from the sun to producers to herbivores and then to carnivores.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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