Explain how energy travels through a food web by filling in the blanks with the correct option in the dropdown menu. Energy in a food web starts with the [ Select] (an autotroph) that creates its own energy, typically from the sun. --> Then energy is passed to the [Select] (a heterotroph) that eats the producer, receiving 20 % of the available energy. --> The [Select] (also a heterotroph) eats this organism, receiving the same percent of available energy available at this step. --> [ Select] Any dead organism is broken down by a that returns nutrients back to the soil.
The food chain begins with producers, organisms such as green plants, that can make their own food. Through photosynthesis, producers convert solar energy to chemical energy, energy in the chemical bonds of the food.
