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    Producers such as plants make their own food through photosynthesis to get energy. Consumers such as animals eat producers or other consumers to obtain energy. Decomposers such as fungi and bacteria break down dead organic matter to get energy. Food chains show how energy is transferred as organisms eat each other, with only about 10% of energy being transferred between each link. Food webs illustrate how multiple overlapping food chains are interconnected within an ecosystem. These interactions and energy transfers are crucial to sustain the biosphere.

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    Producers such as plants make their own food through photosynthesis to get energy. Consumers such as animals eat producers or other consumers to obtain energy. Decomposers such as fungi and bacteria break down dead organic matter to get energy. Food chains show how energy is transferred as organisms eat each other, with only about 10% of energy being transferred between each link. Food webs illustrate how multiple overlapping food chains are interconnected within an ecosystem. These interactions and energy transfers are crucial to sustain the biosphere.

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    Producers such as plants make their own food through photosynthesis to get energy. Consumers such as animals eat producers or other consumers to obtain energy. Decomposers such as fungi and bacteria break down dead organic matter to get energy. Food chains show how energy is transferred as organisms eat each other, with only about 10% of energy being transferred between each link. Food webs illustrate how multiple overlapping food chains are interconnected within an ecosystem. These interactions and energy transfers are crucial to sustain the biosphere.

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    Supplying Energy

    Interactions of Living Things

     Producers: living things that make their own food to get the energy they need
     Consumers: living things that eat producers or other consumers to get the energy
    they need
     Decomposers: living things that break down dead organic material to get the
    energy they need
     Food chain: a model that describes how food energy is passed from one living
    thing to another
     Shows how the stored energy in food is passed on from one living thing to another.
    Food Webs

     Food webs show how food chains are


    connected.
     Food web: a model of feeding relationships
    shows a network of interacting and
    overlapping food chains
     Weaves two or more food chains within any
    ecosystem
    Sustaining the Biosphere
     Interactions are needed to provide a
    constant flow of energy to sustain the
    biosphere.
     Only 10% of the food energy for a producer
    is available for the consumer. Meaning that
    more energy is being used/lost than it is
    being passed down the chain.
     Energy pyramid: a model that shows the
    amount of energy available in each level of
    food chain

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