This document discusses food chains and the organisms within them. It defines a food chain as a classification of organisms dependent on each other as a food source. It describes producers as organisms that use photosynthesis to create food, and consumers as organisms that eat something else, whether plants (herbivores), meat (carnivores), or both (omnivores). Higher-level consumers are secondary consumers that eat herbivores or tertiary consumers that eat other carnivores. An ecosystem is the biological community and interactions between organisms and their environment. Arrows in food chains represent the flow of energy from one organism to another through consumption.
This document discusses food chains and the organisms within them. It defines a food chain as a classification of organisms dependent on each other as a food source. It describes producers as organisms that use photosynthesis to create food, and consumers as organisms that eat something else, whether plants (herbivores), meat (carnivores), or both (omnivores). Higher-level consumers are secondary consumers that eat herbivores or tertiary consumers that eat other carnivores. An ecosystem is the biological community and interactions between organisms and their environment. Arrows in food chains represent the flow of energy from one organism to another through consumption.
This document discusses food chains and the organisms within them. It defines a food chain as a classification of organisms dependent on each other as a food source. It describes producers as organisms that use photosynthesis to create food, and consumers as organisms that eat something else, whether plants (herbivores), meat (carnivores), or both (omnivores). Higher-level consumers are secondary consumers that eat herbivores or tertiary consumers that eat other carnivores. An ecosystem is the biological community and interactions between organisms and their environment. Arrows in food chains represent the flow of energy from one organism to another through consumption.