Food Chain

A food chain explain how food energy is transferred from plants to an animal and then to other animals. Food chains always start with green plants making food energy from the sun. They are the only part of a food chain that can transfer the sun’s energy into food during a process called photosynthesis. A plant that can make its own food through photosynthesis is called producer. An apple tree, sunflower, or grapes are producers. The greatest amount of energy in a food web is in the producers.

    Next, an animal eats the plant and another animal eats that animal.  An organism that eats another organism in order to get its food, like an animal is eating a plant or another animal, are consumers.

   An animal that eats the plant is the primaryconsumer. The animal that eats another animal is a secondaryconsumer. Animals with nopredators are at the top of the foodchain. When these predators die, their body is decomposed. Decomposers are made up of fungi, bacteria, worms and insects. Decomposers are living things that get energy by breakingdowndeadanimals and plants and breaking down wastes of other animals.

Parts of the Food Chain

 All living parts of an ecosystem are interdependent on each other. They depend on one another for survival. Starting with the sun’s energy, organisms pass energy from one organism to another in a food chain or food web. The producer has the greatest amount of energy.

  Look down below. In a food chain/web, the arrowpoints to the organism that is doing the eating, therefore showing the flow of energy.