Organisms and their

environment
Dyuvan D M
Energy flow Sun

Photosynthesis in Photosynthesis in
 All organisms depend directly wheat grass
or indirectly on the Sun to
provide theme with energy.

Wheat Cow
 All food eaten by all organisms
including humans source their
food form the energy provided
by the sun. Flour Milk

Bread Cheese
Food chain
 A food shows the transfer of energy from one organism to the next.

Producers
(plants)

Primary consumers
(herbivores)

Secondary consumers
(predators,omnivores)

Tertiary consumers
(scavengers,decomposers)
Food chain(Pyramid of Numbers)
 The number of organisms on one level of the food chain is less than the previous level and
more than the next

Haw
ks

Snakes

Squirrels

Plants
Food Web
 A food web shows many interconnected food chains.
 The relationship between any two animals in the ecosystem can easily be identified.

Osprey
Leopard

Snake Heron
Fox
Fish
Bat

Rabbit
Beetle Tadpole

Vegetation
Disruptions
 One small disturbance in the food web affects all organisms of the ecosystem

 If an animal goes extinct, the animals below it in the food chain will increase in number and
the organisms above said animal will have a shortage of food.

 Another way is the introduction of a new, alien organism to the web. This new animal will
consume organisms from the ecosystem and cause a shortage of food for native species.