4.5a Food Chains

understand the concepts of food chains, food webs, pyramids or number, pyramids of biomass and pyramids of energy transfer.


- food chain links together the producer to the primary producer to the secondary consumer to the tertiary consumer.
-one organism shown at each trophic level
-in food chain you cannot show a food chain being an omnivore.
-cannot show organisms feeding at more than 2 trophic levels.
-food chains show the flow of matter and they show the flow of energy.