ECOLOGY
ENERGY FLOW AND THE FOOD CHAIN
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food chain
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decomposer
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consumer
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aquatic
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -A food chain is a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
Detailed explanation-3: -Primary producers use energy from the sun to produce their own food in the form of glucose, and then primary producers are eaten by primary consumers who are in turn eaten by secondary consumers, and so on, so that energy flows from one trophic level, or level of the food chain, to the next.