Overview
What is a Food Web?
Why is it called a food web? What does it have to do with energy?
Producers
Producers are the base of the food web, capturing energy and storing it in a form that living things can use.
- Taking a Marshmallow Apart
One of the easiest ways to see how plants make sugar is to take some apart, to see what it is made of. - Calories: Measuring the Energy
To follow energy through a living system, we need a way to measure it. What exactly is a calorie?. - Thoughts on Trees: Where does all of that wood come from?
Primary Consumers
Primary consumers are usually herbivores, eating plants to get their stored energy.
Secondary Consumers
Secondary consumers are predators, animals that eat other animals.
- Finding Fat: How Secondary Consumers get more energy
- Spider Spotting: Hunt for predators in your own yard.
Scavengers and Decomposers
Meet the "clean up crew" of the food web.