A common representation of the way in which energy flows through a system is a food chain.
A food chain depicts the members of a system and provides insight as to the flow and distribution of energy throughout the system. The members of a food chain may include:
- Primary producers
- Primary consumers
- Secondary consumers
- Decomposers
and sometimes more.
The primary producers are those that use sunlight or another readily available resource to create energy, these are often plants. These are then eaten by the primary consumers, who in turn are consumed by the secondary consumers, and so on.
By representing the way energy is drawn from the environment and then passed along the members, the food chain serves as a useful representation of the flow and distribution of energy through a living system.
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