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Food Chains

A FOOD CHAIN is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy

A food chain shows one possible path along which energy can move through an ecosystem

Food Food Webs


Shows many overlapping food chains with in an ecosystem

Energy Pyramids
A diagram called an ENERGY PYRAMID shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web Only about 10 percent of the energy contained in one level of a food web is transferred to the next, higher, level.

When an organism in an ecosystem eats food, it obtains energy.

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