Continuation of Notes

Pyramids:

A different period of numbers can look different. 

Who lives in one big Oak tree: If a tree is 10 m high, with 10 birds in it. There needs to be lots of insects, for 10 birds. Weasel?.

1 Weasel

Some Birds

Lots of Bugs

1 Tree

(This is a pyramid of numbers)

Weasel

Birds

Insects

Tree

(This is a pyramid of biomass, with the heaviest on the bottom)

Backtrack:

Detrivores- An organism that obtains energy by eating dead organisms. Decomposers that live off of dead things are Detrivores. A decomposer that obtains energy from living things are technically parasites. An example is like a Fungus on a tree.

Cycling of Nutrients:

Carbon

Nitrogen

Phosphorous

(They are all cycles)