Energy Flow in Food Webs

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.

  • 1

    A food web shows how matter and energy flow in an ecosystem.

  • 2

    Producers, like plants, use energy from the Sun to create their own food, while consumers obtain energy by eating other organisms.

  • 3

    Decomposers break down dead organisms and waste, recycling matter back into the ecosystem.