Notes: 1  When s is a string or Unicode string object the in and not in operations act like a substring test. In Python versions before 2.3, x had to be a string of length 1. 2  Values of n less than 0 are treated as 0 (which yields an empty sequence of the same type as s).
A food web describes the flow of energy and nutrients through an ecosystem, while a food chain is a linear path through a food web. Distinguish between food chains and food webs as models of energy flow in ecosystems. Organisms can be organized into trophic levels: primary producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary or higher-order consumer.
Energy occurs in many forms, including chemical energy, thermal energy, electromagnetic radiation, gravitational energy, electric energy, elastic energy, nuclear energy, and rest energy. These can be categorized in two main classes: potential energy and kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is the movement energy of an object. Kinetic energy may be best understood by examples that demonstrate how it is transformed to and from other forms of energy.