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Answers. 1  A food chain is the what animal eats what animal. It really should be called a food web because many animals eat many other animals. The food web is a representation of an energy pyramid. An energy pyramid just shows where the energy is going. The sun is at the bottom, then plants and so on. There really are not many differences between them.
Trophic pyramid: Trophic pyramid, the basic structure of interaction in all biological communities characterized by the manner in which food energy is passed from one trophic level to the next along the food chain. The base of the pyramid is composed of species called autotrophs, the primary producers of the ecosystem. All other organisms in the ecosystem are consumers called heterotrophs, which either directly or indirectly depend on the primary producers for food energy. Figure 2: Transfer of energy through an ecosystem.