Food Chain & Food Web

Organisms that can manufacture their own food. These organisms trap the energy from the sun and convert it to compounds they need to grow.

Organisms that obtain their energy needs by eating plants and other animals and cannot make their own food.

Organisms that directly feed on the producer

Organisms that eat animals.

Organisms that eat both plants and animals.

An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem.

It consists of the sequence of organisms that eat other organisms through which energy is transferred.

It consists of several interlocking food chains. It is a more complex pattern of energy transfer.