This document discusses feeding relationships and food webs in ecosystems. It defines key terms like producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and describes different types of interactions like commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism. Examples of each are provided. Food chains and food webs are explained, showing the transfer of energy from trophic level to trophic level. Energy pyramids, biomass pyramids, and pyramids of numbers are introduced to illustrate how energy and biomass decrease at higher trophic levels due to energy losses between levels. Sample questions are included for students to answer.
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