Food chains always begin with producers like plants, which use sunlight to produce energy in the form of food. A food chain represents a single path of energy transfer from one organism to the next, starting with a producer and ending with a top predator or decomposer. A food web depicts the complex and interconnected feeding relationships between multiple organisms in an ecosystem, as one organism can be part of multiple food chains by being consumed by different predators. It shows how energy flows between organisms in an environment.