FOOD CHAIN

Dea Stavileci 12C

 A food chain consists of producers, consumers and
decomposers. All organisms need energy to live and
complete their life cycle. The main source of energy is
the radiant energy from the sun ,but it is unusable by all
organisms.
 Producers
 The bacteria, protists
and plants that can
convert light energy
into chemical energy
are called producers.
These organisms form
the first link of the
food chain.
 Consumers
 Primary consumers : These
are the animals that feed
on plants , the herbivores.
Examples are insects,
gnawing mammals and
ruminants.
 Secondary and tertiary
consumers : Secondary
consumers are organisms
that feed on herbivores,
tertiary consumers are
organisms that feed on
secondary consumers.
 Decomposers
 Decomposers are mainly bacteria and fungi. These organisms have a
very important role in ecosystems.
 These organisms decompose dead animals and thereby prevent grave
health hazards . Nutrition starts with plants and passes to different
animals.Most of the animals in a food chain feed on more than one type
of food.
 Food relations in a community or an ecosystem are not formed from a
regular chain.Sometimes they contain complex interconnections of
many fod chains called a food web. Food webs may have short and
long chains.