Food Webs Day 2

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The energy inside you came from the Sun. 

How does energy get from the Sun to inside your body?

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What happens to the energy humans use to keep their bodies at a temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit?

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Why isn’t energy trapped in the tissues of dead plants and animals?

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Why do we use the pyramid shape to describe the different amounts of energy in each trophic level?

Write a paragraph (4 sentences) summarizing the flow of energy as it travels from the Sun to humans through a food chain.

You may want to include the following sentence stems:

Plants are the foundation of the food chain because they…

Not all of the energy from our food is stored in our bodies because…

Short Answer Question:

How does the biomass pyramid on the left compare to the energy pyramid on the right?

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How do nutrients found in dead plants and animals make it back into the food chain?

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Based on this passage, explain the phrase, “You are what you eat.”

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Why do organisms store such a small percentage of what they eat in their bodies?

Write a paragraph (4 sentences) summarizing the flow of matter through the food chains.

You may want to include the following sentence stems:

Plants produce organic compounds during…

Consumers are only able to store a small amount of biomass because…

Decomposers are important to ecosystems because…