Transcript Organisms and the Environment Chapter Five: Ecosystems • 5.1 Ecosystems, Energy, and Nutrients • 5.2 Food Chains and Food Webs • 5.3 Ecosystems- A.

Organisms and the
Environment
Chapter Five: Ecosystems
• 5.1 Ecosystems, Energy, and Nutrients
• 5.2 Food Chains and Food Webs
• 5.3 Ecosystems- A Natural Balance
Investigation 5A
Food Webs- A Delicate Balance
• How is energy
transferred from
organism to
organism in an
ecosystem?
5.2 What is a
food chain?
• A food chain shows
how each member of
an ecosystem gets
its food.
• A simple food chain
links a producer, an
herbivore, and one or
more carnivores.
Which is the carnivore?
5.2 Energy and food chains
• A diagram in the shape of a pyramid is a
good way to show how energy moves from
one feeding level to the next in a food
chain.
5.2 Food webs
• Most animals are
part of more than
one food chain.
• We can connect
many food chains
to form a food web.