1. Food webs model interactions within the community.

2.  Producers  Create their own food using sun’s energy  Start energy flow  Consumers  Eat other organisms to get their energy  Herbivores, Omnivores, Carnivores  Decomposers Break down dead plants, animals, and waste and return nutrients to the ecosystem

3.  Show how living things get their energy  It is linear.  The arrow represents energy.

4.  Show how energy moves through a community  Made up of food chains  Producers are at the base and top consumers are at the top

5.  Arrow goes to the organism that does the eating because they get the energy.  Producers always start ALL food chains/webs  Arrows are neat

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