what is meant by food chain give examples of a terrestrial food chain and and aquatic food chain
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Answer:
The series of organisms each depends on the other as a source of food.
Answer:
Explanation:
(i) Food chain is a linkage of organisms within an
ecosystem, in which each link feeds on the one
before it and is fed on by the one after it.
(ii) Only the first link in the chain is a producer and
all the rest are consumers.
(iii) In the ecosystem, the energy is transferred from
one organism to another with food, in a definite
sequence.
(iv) Initially, solar energy is absorbed by producers
and with the help of photosynthesis the food is
synthesized.
(v) Energy gets transferred from producers to
consumers of different levels.
(vi) Decomposers derive energy from dead organisms
by decomposition from all levels.
(viii) The flow of energy is unidirectional