ECOLOGY
ENERGY FLOW AND PRIMARY PRODUCTION
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pyramid
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Detailed explanation-1: -A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem. Each organism in an ecosystem occupies a specific trophic level or position in the food chain or web. Producers, who make their own food using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, make up the bottom of the trophic pyramid.
Detailed explanation-2: -A food chain is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. The first organism in a food chain is always a producer. The second organism, called a first-level consumer, eats the producer. The next consumer, called a second-level consumer, eats the first-level consumer.
Detailed explanation-3: -A food chain describes how energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem. At the basic level there are plants that produce the energy, then it moves up to higher-level organisms like herbivores. After that when carnivores eat the herbivores, energy is transferred from one to the other.
Detailed explanation-4: -The sequence of living organisms in a community in which one organism consumes another organism to transfer food energy is called a food chain.
Detailed explanation-5: -Animals that eat only plants are called herbivores (or primary consumers). Animals that eat other animals are called carnivores. Carnivores that eat herbivores are called secondary consumers, and carnivores that eat other carnivores are called tertiary consumers.