Ecosystem

• Food Chain

  Transfer of energy from an organism to other (feeding pattern)
• Food Web

  Flow of Energy
• Detritus & Decomposers belong too...

  Food Web
• Mutualism

  Both species benefit
• Commensalism

  One benefits, Other is unharmed
• Parasitism

  One benefits, Other is harmed
• Predation

  One benefits, Other dies
• Competition

  Relies on the same environment
• Number of Individuals needed in each tropic level

  Pyramid of Numbers
• Energy conserved across the tropic level

  Pyramid of Energy
• Autotrophs

  Producers in the food chain
• Heterotrophs

  Consumers in the food chain
• Ecology

  Study of interactions of living and non-livings things
• Collects energy from the waste materials

  Decomposers ( fungi )