A musical Lecture by Glenn Wolkenfeid Oh a huclear happens deep inside the sun, Where hydrogen atoms are fused into Then the heat and light is radiated into space. In 90 milion miles it shines upon the Earth”s face. For every hundred calories that out from the sun. The calories that green plants trap will number only one. But evry single calorie in ocean, hills, and plains, Will serve as a foundation for a living food chain. At the bottom a food chain are producers like green plants. Whose cells make food from sunlight making use of chloroplasts. It happens in the pines and flowers on your windowsill. Cause every green plant”s got a little chlorophyll. Well the next step in a food chain is a primary consumer, An herbivoric cow or vegetarian baby boomer. A primary consumer spends it”s mealtimes eating plant. It might be buffalo or might be an ant. Each level in a food chain yields only ten percent, Of the former level’s energy you might ask where went. There are bones and leaves you can’t digest that really make a dent. And don’t ignore the weighty cost metabolic rent. So if your plant are yieding bout a hundred calories. Your yield will only be ten in the birdies and the bees. And seven hundred calories in algae in sea, In primary consumers it will yield you seventy. Some other ways of getting food are really out of sight. You could be a predator or a parasite. A predator eats meat, a parasite eats your insites, And if you’re a decompoer you will eat me when I die! And if you know this ‘bout food chains you can really take the cake. When energy gose through it dosen’t last, it dissipates. But hutrients infood chains meet a very different fate, They recycle and they circulate forever, ain’t that Just remember ther’s no beings in this world live alone. Populations form communities, where all do make their homes. Though your niche may be determining the role that you are playing, Every creature live or dead is in s food chain!