Question

what are difference between Food Chain and Food Web​

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

difference between Food Chain and Food Web are :-

• Food chain is a single path of plants and animals so that they eat each other and energy flows accordingly while food web is a collection of many food chains.
• Food chains shows only one chain of connected plants and animals with their food habits while food web shows the various different plants and animals in an ecosystem.
• Food chain is a model of plants and animals which shows the flow of energy among organisms while food web is a connection between food chains and what species eat them.
• Food chain has no effect on improving the adaptability and competitiveness of organisms while food web improves them.
• food chain is the pattern that energy uses to transmit to producers to decomposers while food web is a series of related food chains displaying the movement of energy.