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Trophic Levels

Trophic Levels. Trophic Levels and Food Chains. Quaternary consumers. Food Chain: set of food (energy) transfer from trophic level to trophic level. Carnivore. Carnivore. Tertiary consumers. Carnivore. Carnivore. Secondary consumers. Carnivore. Carnivore. Primary consumers.

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Trophic Levels

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  1. Trophic Levels

  2. Trophic Levels and Food Chains Quaternary consumers • Food Chain: • set of food (energy) transfer from trophic level to trophic level Carnivore Carnivore Tertiary consumers Carnivore Carnivore Secondary consumers Carnivore Carnivore Primary consumers Zooplankton Herbivore Producers Plant Phytoplankton Figure 19.21 A marine food chain A terrestrial food chain

  3. Herbivores: eat plants, algae, or autotrophic bacteria, are the primary consumers of an ecosystem • Carnivores, which eat the consumers from the levels below • Secondary consumers include many small mammals, such as rodents, and small fishes that eat zooplankton • Tertiary consumers, such as snakes, eat mice and other secondary consumers • Quaternary consumers include hawks and killer whales.

  4. What is a decomposer and what do they do? What trophic level would you put them at? • Derive their energy from the dead material left by all trophic levels • Are often left off of most food chain diagrams • Decomposers: Figure 19.22

  5. Food Web Activity • The feeding relationships in an ecosystem • With your group list 12 organisms that live in one habitat. Include at least one from each trophic level. Show who eats who? • What does it look like? • List 6 abiotic factors that are part of your ecosystem? How do they affect organisms in the ecosystem?

  6. Quaternary, tertiary, and secondary consumers Tertiary and secondary consumers Secondary and primary consumers Primary consumers Producers (plants) Figure 19.23

  7. What happens to energy as you go up trophic levels? Why? Tertiary consumers 10 kcal Secondary consumers 100 kcal Primary consumers 1,000 kcal Producers 10,000 kcal Figure 19.26

  8. CHEMICAL CYCLING IN ECOSYSTEMS • Ecosystems • Depend on a recycling of chemical elements • What gets recycled in our ecosystem? • Energy?? NOOO • Water • Carbon • Nitrogen

  9. Consumers • Generalized scheme for biogeochemical cycles Producers Detritivores Nutrients available to producers Abiotic reservoir Geologic processes Figure 19.28

  10. CO2 in atmosphere Photosynthesis Burning • The carbon cycle Producers Wood and fossil fuels Cellular respiration Higher-level consumers Primary consumers Decomposition Detritivores Detritus What do we eat that has carbon? (a) The carbon cycle Figure 19.29a

  11. Carbon Cycle • Producers: Plants take in CO2 and make sugar by photosynthesis. • Consumers: Animals eat plants to get energy (respiration) from sugar and make proteins from the carbon. • Breath out CO2 as a waste product of respiration. • Animals die and dentritus (decomposers) break down the carbon and other elements back into the soil and air for plants to use again.

  12. Nitrogen (N2) in atmosphere • The nitrogen cycle Detritus Amino acids and proteins in plants and animals Detritivores Denitrifying bacteria Assimilation by plants Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules of legumes Decomposition Nitrates (NO3– ) Nitrogen fixation Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in soil Ammonium (NH4+ ) Nitrifying bacteria (b) The nitrogen cycle Figure 19.29b

  13. Nitrogen Fixation by bacteria • Plants need nitrogen but cannot take it in from the air. • Bacteria in the soil on the roots of plants take in nitrogen (N2) and make ammonia (NH4) which plants can then use to get nitrogen.

  14. Net movement of water vapor by wind (36) Solar heat Water vapor over the land Water vapor over the sea • The water cycle Precipitation over the land (95) Evaporation and transpiration (59) Precipitation over the sea (283) Evaporation from the sea (319) Surface water and groundwater Flow of water from land to sea (36) Oceans (d) The water cycle Figure 19.29d

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