Do you know how the food chain works?

A food chain shows the feeding relationship between different organisms in a particular environment. Energy is passed from the sun to producers,from producers to consumers,and from consumers to decomposers such as fungi. They also show how animals depend on other organisms for food. 

The food chain comprises plants and producers.They absorb sunlight from the soil and produce their food. Plants are the only living being who produce new energy for the other living being.Consumers Animals are consumers.This is because they do not produce energy. They just use it up.          

Animals that eat plants are called primary consumers or herbivores.Those that eat other animals are called secondary consumers, or carnivores. If a carnivore eats another carnivore, it’s called a tertiary consumer. Some animals eat both plants and animals. In the process they break them down and plants decompose them. 

When that happens, they release nutrients and minerals back into the soil which then is used by plants.Humans are the end of the food chain.They eat both plants and animals that consume other forms of energy. A food web is a natural interconnection of different food chains. 

Therefore, the food chain protects and maintains a good ecosystem by balancing the population of organisms.