explain in detail the inter-relationship between the food chain and food web
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A food web consists of many food chains. A food chain only follows just one path as animals find food. eg: A hawk eats a snake, which has eaten a frog, which has eaten a grasshopper, which has eaten grass. A food web shows the many different paths plants and animals are connected
(1) interaction go on continuously between producers, consumers and decomposers.
(2) there is a definite sequence in these interactions which is called the food chain.
(3) each chain consists of 4, 5 or more links.
(4) an ecosystem consists of many food chains that are interconnected at various levels. Thus a food web is formed.
(5) an organism may be the prey for many other organisms.
(6) for example, an insect feeds upon leaves of various plants but the same insect is the prey for different animals that frog, wall lizard, birds, etc.
(7) Thus many food chains interconnected together form an intricate web called as food web.