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Food Chain A food chain is a chain that describes the way food is made from beginning to end to provided the organisms with something to eat. Every organism is different when it comes to what they eat, for example; some eat plants or other organisms. The food chain starts with the primary energy source, otherwise known as the sun, which provides the light and heat. Next in the food chain is the primary producers, which make their own food from the sunlight, photosynthesis is an example. Then comes the primary consumers, which eat the primary producers, or other know as herbivores. Next is the secondary consumers, which eat the herbivores, other know as carnivores or meat eaters. Then there are the teritary which eat the secondary consumers and the quaternary consumers, which eat the teritary consumers. Each food chain ends with a top predator, which are animals that have little or no natural enemies to be aware of.
Food Web A food web is a pyramid made up of different plants and animals that have an effect on one another by their eating habits. At the bottom of the pyramid it starts with the decomposers and producers. Then the next level are the herbivores which are the organisms to which they only eat plants. Then are the carnivores which are the organisms that are also considered to be meat eaters. Finally at the peak of the pyramid are the omnivores, which eat both plants and meat. The difference between the two is that the food chain follows a single path as animals east each other. The food web shows how animals and plants interconnect by the different