Inter-relationship between food chain and food web
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In ecology, a food web describe the feeding connection between organisms in a biotic community.
Both energy and nutrients flow through a food web , moving through organisms as they are consumed by an organism above them in the food web .
A single path of energy through a food web is called a food chain.
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❤️FOOD CHAIN❤️
➡️A food chain only follows just one path as animals find food.
➡️A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms and ending at apex predator species, detritivores, or decomposer species.
➡️A food chain also shows how the organisms are related with each other by the food they eat.
➡️Each level of a food chain represents a different trophic level.
➡️eg: A hawk eats a snake, which has eaten a frog, which has eaten a grasshopper, which has eaten grass.
❤️ FOOD WEB ❤️
➡️A food web shows the many different paths plants and animals are connected.
➡️Food web is a network of food chains where all the chains are naturally interconnected. A food web consists of many food chains.
➡️A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
➡️Another name for food web is consumer-resource system.
➡️ eg: A hawk might also eat a mouse, a squirrel, a frog or some other animal.