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Food Chain

Summary:

A food chain represents a single pathway by which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem.
A food web represents multiple pathways through which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem.

Select from the frequently asked questions below

Do any animals eat a whale?

Why do scientists use a food web instead of a food chain?

What is the type of consumers that are at the top of food chains and usually eat secondary consumers to obtain energy?

Why do grasshoppers and grass interact?

How does a trophic pyramid relate to an ecosystem?

What do the ringed seal and harp seal have in common in the Arctic food web?

What type of predators fill the top trophic level?

What is the top obvious characteristic of all living things in the food web?

Explain the relationship between producers and consumers.

Why were there more grasshoppers than birds in the ecosystem?

What do secondary consumers eat?

What does the length of a food chain represent?

List a terrestrial food chain that includes four feeding levels.

Which trophic level contains the most numbers of organisms?

If you have a habitat that has snakes, birds, insects, and grasshoppers, which one would have the lowest population?

If grasshoppers were removed from food web, which organism would suffer the most, bird or the baboon?

Which level of consumers are snakes if they eat mice?

What do the seals and birds have in common in the food web?

What do the beluga and the sea duck have in common in the food web?

What mammal can eat a snake?

Are red knots the only species of bird to use horseshoe crab eggs as a resource?

What do the links in a food web represent?

Why does your liver hurt when you run?

Who is the primary consumer in this food chain?

Who are the consumers in the food chain?

What are producers in food chain?

What are decomposers in a food chain?