In your textbook, read Chapter 2, section 2.1 to review these concepts. At the end of this post there is a quiz.
In an ecosystem, you are food!
In this section, we explore the many ways of visualizing the ecosystem. These include
Food Chain
Food Web
Pyramids showing trophic levels
Members of the ecosystem can be divided into these categories:
Producer: a plants and any photosynthesizing microbe.
Primary Consumer: a herbivore
Secondary Consumer: can be a carnivore who eats herbivores. Also can be an omnivore who
eats herbivores
Tertiary Consumer: a carnivore: one who eats carnivores and herbivores
detrivore: one who eats dead and decaying things
decomposer: Fungi and Microbes: consume decaying things and breaks them down into
elements and compounds. Decomposers cause the biodegradation of other organisms
Food Pyramid showing trophic levels
Biomass Pyramid
Pyramid of Energy
Pyramid of numbers
When you finish doing the questions in the study guide, check out the provincial exam samples on the ministry website and then try this quiz. You have until next tuesday to submit your responses. Careful. some questions are really tricky!
