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    This document contains an energy pyramid lab completed by Quinnya jackosn for their Auburn school on 7/21/2021. The lab involves calculating the amount of energy and biomass at each trophic level in different ecosystems, including deserts, deciduous forests, savannas, rainforests, and tundra. Tropical rainforests have the greatest overall energy while deserts have the least. Ecosystems with more overall energy tend to have greater biomass due to more primary producers. Deserts have low energy and biomass despite sunlight availability due to high temperatures inhibiting plant growth. Zebras will always outnumber lions as zebras must maintain high populations to sustain the lion predators.

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    This document contains an energy pyramid lab completed by Quinnya jackosn for their Auburn school on 7/21/2021. The lab involves calculating the amount of energy and biomass at each trophic level in different ecosystems, including deserts, deciduous forests, savannas, rainforests, and tundra. Tropical rainforests have the greatest overall energy while deserts have the least. Ecosystems with more overall energy tend to have greater biomass due to more primary producers. Deserts have low energy and biomass despite sunlight availability due to high temperatures inhibiting plant growth. Zebras will always outnumber lions as zebras must maintain high populations to sustain the lion predators.

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    This document contains an energy pyramid lab completed by Quinnya jackosn for their Auburn school on 7/21/2021. The lab involves calculating the amount of energy and biomass at each trophic level in different ecosystems, including deserts, deciduous forests, savannas, rainforests, and tundra. Tropical rainforests have the greatest overall energy while deserts have the least. Ecosystems with more overall energy tend to have greater biomass due to more primary producers. Deserts have low energy and biomass despite sunlight availability due to high temperatures inhibiting plant growth. Zebras will always outnumber lions as zebras must maintain high populations to sustain the lion predators.

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    Energy Pyramaid Lab

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    Name: Quinnya jackosn School: auburn

    Date: 7/21/2021 Facilitator: Hendricks

    1.04 Energy Pyramid Lab


    Directions: In this activity, you will explore the relationship between energy and matter in
    an ecosystem.

    Part 1: Energy
    Calculate the amount of energy available for each trophic level in each ecosystem given the
    amount of the energy produced by producers. Hint: Remember the 10% rule.

    Biome Producers Primary Secondary Tertiary


    Consumers Consumers Consumers
    Deserts 200 J 20J 2J 0.2 J

    Deciduous 6000 J 600 J 60 J 6J


    temperate
    forests

    Savanna 3000 J 300 J 30 J 3J

    Tropical 9000 J 900 J 90 J 9J


    rainforest

    Tundra 600 J 60 J 6J 0.6 J

    Part 2: Biomass
    Calculate the total biomass in each ecosystem.

    Biome Producers Primary Secondary Tertiary Total


    Consumers Consumer Consumers Biomass
    s
    Deserts 315 29 5 1 350

    Deciduous 12,016 1,175 140 17 13,348


    temperate
    forests
    Biome Producers Primary Secondary Tertiary Total
    Consumers Consumer Consumers Biomass
    s
    Savanna 2,565 260 23 2 2,85019,401

    Tropical 17,461 1722 193 25 19,401


    rainforest

    Tundra 293 7 4 1 305

    Part 3: Analysis
    Use the data in the charts above as well as information from the content of the lessons to
    answer the following analysis questions. Use complete sentences.

    1. Which ecosystem has the greatest amount of energy overall? The least amount? Tropical
    Rainforest with the most. Deserts with the least.

    2. Which ecosystem has the greatest mass of organisms in it? The least number of
    organisms? (Hint: All trophic levels added together) Producers because they have the
    most little guys. Tertiary with the least because it doesn’t get consumed.

    3. Using what you know about the energy—matter relationship, explain why the ecosystems
    with the greater amount of overall energy tend to have a greater mass of organisms. They
    have more plants for organisms to eat.

    4. Deserts have plenty of sunlight for producers to use in photosynthesis. However, their
    energy levels and biomass are more like the tundra than the rainforest. Explain why. It is
    too hot for anything to grow unlike the Rainforest.

    5. The Plains zebra is one of the primary prey of the lion. There are about 750,000 Plains
    zebras in the wild. There are only about 20,000 lions in the wild. Explain why zebras will
    always outnumber lions in the wild. They have to repopulate fast so the lions dont run out
    of food.

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