Overview
Food chains and food webs are essential concepts in ecology that illustrate how energy and nutrients flow through ecosystems. A food chain is a linear sequence of organisms, starting with producers that create energy through photosynthesis, followed by various consumers that eat them. Decomposers pl...
Key Terms
Example: Plants are producers that convert sunlight into energy.
Example: Lions are consumers that eat herbivores.
Example: Fungi and bacteria are decomposers.
Example: Producers are at the first trophic level.
Example: Grass → Rabbit → Fox.
Example: A forest food web includes many plants and animals.
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