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This particular comic strip uses creative techniques to portray energy transfer throughout an ecosystem. For example, the sunflower is using the energy from the sun to make sugar in its photosynthesis process. Additionally, the primary consumer that eats the plant, in this case the deer, will absorb only ten percent of the total energy from the plant. Finally, the man who hunts the deer in the third picture will absorb ten percent of energy from the deer.

Energy Transfer Comic Strip

This comic strip starts with a rabbit eating grass.  The grass gains energy from the sunlight through photosynthesis.  In the second panel, there is a cow that sees the rabbit.  Since cows are herbivores, he has no interest in getting his energy from eating a rabbit.  In the third panel, it shows the cow also eating grass.  He gains his energy from eating grass, rather than the rabbit.

Comic Strip energy transfer

In this comic strip, a handful of ants are being useless with their energy and the anteater decides there is a better use for them. By eating the ants, the anteater gains about 10% of the energy that was stored in the ants he just ate. These ants gained their energy from whatever they ate, which could have gotten its energy from the sun(main source of energy in almost every ecosystem) or another organism that probably gained its energy from the sun. The type of energy transfer shown occurs between all organisms that eat other organisms. Unfortunately, this anteater will eventually pass on his energy to a larger mammal or will die and decomposers will use the energy he once consumed. Ants being eaten by an anteater is an example of energy transfer in an ecosystem.

Everyone needs energy Comic

 

In this rage comic I am abstractly depicting the importance of energy and energy transformation. In the first panel, someone who is particularly hungry is shown, and he appears to be quite frustrated and angry. This is because when one is hungry, one lacks energy and thus doesn't act normally because energy is needed to function properly in all organisms. Animals take in energy from eating food which contains energy. In the second panel, someone who has eaten well is shown, and he appears to be happy and to be doing well. So once again, when people eat food they are transforming it into energy that they need to perform normal and everyday functions. Ingesting food is necessary for making energy, which everyone needs in order to survive.  

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The shark was hungry so his body needed energy.  In order to get the energy he needed he had to eat something.  Instead of eating the fish, he ate the plants that were growing from the light of the sun.  This shows energy transfer because the sun allows the plants to produce energy that is then passed on to its consumer the shark.