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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.
A food web is a natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community. Another name for food web is consumer-resource system. Ecologists can broadly lump all life forms into one of two categories called trophic levels: 1 the autotrophs, and 2 the heterotrophs. To maintain their bodies, grow, develop, and to reproduce, autotrophs produce organic matter from inorganic substances, including both minerals and gases such as carbon dioxide.