1. Food Chains and What not

2. We’re all connected by what we eat

4. Habitat Herbivore Carnivore Decomposer Scavenger Consumer/HeterotrophProducer/Autotroph Omnivore Niche Where an organism lives Plant eater Meat eater Breaks down dead organisms Eats already dead animals (road kill) Has to eat to get energy Makes own food Plant Plant and meat eater The role an organism plays- what it eats, what it does

5. Niche and habitat….What are they? The ecological niche of an organism depends not only on where it lives but also on what it does. By analogy, it may be said that the habitat is the organism's "address", and the niche is its "profession", biologically speaking. Odum - Fundamentals of Ecology - W B Saunders 1959 A rabbit’s habitat or address would be my garden. Its niche would be eating the vegetables, and putting nitrogen back into the soil.

6. $10,000 $1000 $100 $10 You only get 10% of the energy from what you eat!!

8. Food Chain Food Web

10. THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!

11. Energy Pyramid

12. Each level of the pyramid is a trophic level

14. Producer Primary Consumer Herbivore Secondary Consumer Tertiary Consumer Most mass Least mass Most energy Least Energy

15. Pyramid of Numbers 1 25 250 3000 Fox Birds Grasshoppers Grasses Name the autotroph Name the secondary consumer Name the heterotrophs

16. Section 2.2 Summary – pages 46 - 57 Pyramid of Energy Heat 0.1% Consumers 1% Consumers 10% Consumers 100% Producers