Question

explain in detail the interrelationship between the Food Chain and Food Web

Answer 1

A food web is the interrelationship between different food chains. Many food chains can be taken out of one food web and many food chains make one food web.

In an ecosytem, there are many producers and many consumers. Because of this, many food chains are formed. But instead, if we make a food web out of all these food chains, it would make it less complicated to understand. To top it all, one animal can eat more than 2 types of species so - food chain is one part of food web where only one way of energy flow is shown, whereas a food web is the interlinking of many food chains to make the understanding less complicated and more easy

Answer 2

{Food Chain}

It is single pathway of energy followed by as animals find food. In an ecosystem, food chain show the flow of energy and nutrients from one to another organism. Plants and animals always require some kind of food to survive.  Like plants produce their own food with sunlight so they are called producers. Animals and human cannot produce their own food so they are called consumers.  Food chain length depends upon number of organisms. A food chain also shows the relation between organisms, as how they are connected with each other with the food they eat. It starts from  producer organism like plants, tress or grass but end at  consumer species like loins or sharks; or decomposer species such as fungi or bacteria.

[For Example]

THE SUN provides food for GRASS.

GRASSHOPPER eats the GRASS.

The mice eats GRASSHOPPER.

Snake eats the mice.

The eagle eats the snake.

Now, when the eagle is dead, fungi break down body then turn into nutrients.

Nutrients along with water, air and sun, cause the grass to grow

{Food web}

Food web or food cycle is the association between food chains and which species eats which food to survive in an ecological system. Food web is also called consumer-asset system. Most organisms in food web have different populaces of producer species  which are eaten by any number of consumer organisms. Food web shows different pathways how different plants and animals are interconnected with each other. For Example, the sea duck is a consumer and decomposer. In food web, producer species  are eaten by various consumers, and most consumers ahead are eaten by in excess of one predator.

[For Example]

A benthic invertebrate eats phytoplankton.

A sea duck or a wading bird can eat benthic invertebrate.

Eagle also eats mice and grasshoppers , and so on.