In a food chain, there are organisms of different trophic levels present. Food chain, the chain or linear network or representation of a line of the food web that always starts with a producer as sea-weed in the given food chain and ends with a predator or third or highest consumer which is Octopus here and in between the different level of consumers from the primary consumer that depends on the producers and secondary consumer depends on primary and so on.
Equal forces are being applied from opposite sides, so they cancel out. Think about pushing on both sides with the same amount of pressure on both sides. Its not gonna move. Hope I could help!
Energy flow is the amount of energy that moves through a food chain chemical cycling is the flow of elements and compounds between living organisms and the physical environment