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Living things need e
Living things need energy
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The Energy Connection | is organisms in a prairie or any community, can be divided into 3 groups based on how they get energy. These groups are producers, consumers, and decomposers. |
Producers | are an organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings. |
Consumers | is an organism that eats other organisms or organic matter. |
Decomposers | are organisms that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming of absorbing the nutrients. |
Food Chain | is the pathway of energy transfers through various stages as a result of the feeding of a series of organisms. |
Food Web | is a diagram that shows the feeding relationship between organisms in an ecosystem. |
Energy Pyramid | are a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem food chain; each row in the pyramid represents a trophic(feeding) level in an ecosystem, and the area of a row respects the energy in t |
Wolves and the Energy Pyramid | can include anything from elk to a lizard. Wolver are also consumers. |
Grey Wolves and the Food Web | because wolves are predators that they prey on large animals ,their place is at the top of the food pyramid. |
Balance in Ecosystems | As wolves become reestablished, they kill the old, injured, and diseased elk. This process is reducing the number of elk, the smaller population is letting plants grow. So, the numbers of animals that eat the plants , such as snowshoe hares, and the an |