
Energy Flow in Food Webs
6th Grade · Science · 50 min
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Learning Objective
I can describe how energy flows and matter cycles through a food web.
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A food web shows how matter and energy flow in an ecosystem.
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Producers, like plants, use energy from the Sun to create their own food, while consumers obtain energy by eating other organisms.
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Decomposers break down dead organisms and waste, recycling matter back into the ecosystem.


