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Energy Pyramid Calculations Worksheet

The biosphere is a closed system comprising all living parts of Earth. Organisms obtain energy by consuming other organisms, allowing energy to circulate through ecosystems. Energy pyramids illustrate how only 10% of energy is transferred from each trophic level to the next, with the remaining 90% lost as waste and heat. Students completed energy pyramids showing decreasing energy availability at higher trophic levels for various food chains involving acorns, phytoplankton, and an original chain with plants and rabbits.

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Energy Pyramid Calculations Worksheet

The biosphere is a closed system comprising all living parts of Earth. Organisms obtain energy by consuming other organisms, allowing energy to circulate through ecosystems. Energy pyramids illustrate how only 10% of energy is transferred from each trophic level to the next, with the remaining 90% lost as waste and heat. Students completed energy pyramids showing decreasing energy availability at higher trophic levels for various food chains involving acorns, phytoplankton, and an original chain with plants and rabbits.

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  • Energy Pyramid Overview
  • Analysis and Exercises

The Biosphere

The biosphere is a closed system that makes up all living


components of Earth. In this system, an organism can consume
another organism to allow energy to circulate to the ecosystem.

Answer the following activities to show how energy is being passed


on from one organism to another.

Energy Pyramids show the loss of energy through an ecosystem.

4th Trophic Level = Tertiary Consumers

A. Place the organisms in each food chain into the proper location on the energy pyramid.

1. Acorn → Squirrel → Crow → Coyote

Coyote

Crow

Squirrel

Acorn

2. Phytoplankton → Shrimp →
Snapper → Shark
Shark

Snapper

Shrimp

Phytoplankton

3. CREATE YOUR OWN FOOD CHAIN.


Eagle

Snake

Rabbit

Plants
4. Only 10% of the energy available at each trophic level moves on to the next level. What happens to
the other 90%?
The other 90% of the energy is either not consumed, or lost through waste and heat.

5. An easy way to calculate the amount of energy available at each level is to


Calculate the percent of energy that is transferred from the first trophic level to the second
trophic level. Divide energy from trophic level one and multiply by 100.

B. Complete the pyramid in each question.

6. Acorn → Squirrel → Crow → Coyote


1 kcal- Coyote
1,000 kcal are available for the 1st trophic level,
100 kcal for the 2nd trophic level, 10 kcal for the
3rd trophic level. How many kcal are available 10 kcal- Crow
for the tertiary consumer?
1 Kcal
100 kcal- Squirrel
Fill in the organisms and energy amounts
on the pyramid to the right. 1,000 kcal -
Acorn

7. Phytoplankton → Shrimp → Snapper → Shark

There are 2,500 kcal available for the 1st 2.5 kcal- Shark
trophic level.
There are 250 kcal available for the 2nd trophic 25 Kcal- Snapper
level. There are 25 kcal available for the 3rd
trophic level. There are 2.5 kcal available for the
4th trophic level. 250 Kcal-Shrimp

Fill in the organisms and energy amounts 2,500 kcal-


on the pyramid to the right. Phytoplankton

8. Use the food chain you created in #3 and


complete the energy pyramid.
10 Kcal- Eagle
st
10,000 kcal for the 1 trophic level.
1,000 kcal for the 2nd trophic level. 100 Kcal- Snake
100 kcal for the 3rd trophic level.
1 kcal for the 4th trophic level.
1,000 Kcal- Rabbit
Fill in the organisms and energy amounts
on the pyramid to the right.
10,000
Kcal-
Plants

The Biosphere The biosphere is a closed system that makes up all living components of Earth. In this system, an organism
4. Only 10% of the energy available at each trophic level moves on to the next level. What happens to the other 90%? The o

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