The document summarizes energy flow within ecosystems. It explains that energy enters ecosystems through producers like plants performing photosynthesis. Primary consumers or herbivores then eat producers, and secondary consumers eat primary consumers. Tertiary consumers feed on secondary consumers. When organisms die, decomposers break down organic material and use it as an energy source. Energy passes through food chains from producers to various consumer levels to decomposers, with some energy lost at each transfer. Food chains interconnect in food webs. An energy pyramid illustrates decreasing energy at higher trophic levels of a food chain.