Energy Flow

Green plants

Green plants

________ store energy from photosynthesis but the antelope only eats parts of the grass so it does not consume all of the energy the grass has stored.

Food web

________: gives a more realistic picture of the feeding relations of the organisms in a habitat.

Arrows

________ in a food chain always point in the direction in which the energy and nutrients flow.

Plants

________ called producers because they produce organic compounds by photosynthesis.

Detrivores

________ and saprotrophs getting their nutrients from dead organisms play a vital role in returning inorganic nutrients to the abiotic environment.

antelope

If the ________ dies the energy from its body is lost to the food chain.

Food chain

________: The sequence of organisms that provide food for one another.