Food

Web
A food web is a model
that shows all the
possible feeding
relationships between
organisms living in an
ecosystem.
EXAMPLE:
TREES produce ACORNS which act as food for
many MICE and INSECTS.
Because there are many MICE, WEASELS and
SNAKES have food.
The insects and the acorns also attract BIRDS,
SKUNKS, and OPOSSUMS.
With the SKUNKS, OPPOSUMS, WEASELS and
MICE around, HAWKS, FOXES, and OWLS can
find food.
They are all connected! Like a spiders web, if one
part is removed, it can affect the whole web.
The food web is divided
into two broad categories:
The grazing web,
beginning with
autotrophs, and the
detrital web, beginning
with organic debris.
In a grazing web, energy and
nutrients move from plants to the
herbivores consuming them to the
carnivores or omnivores preying upon
the herbivores. In a detrital web,
plant and animal matter is broken
down by decomposers, e.g., bacteria
and fungi, and moves to detritivores
and then carnivores.
You can see that a food web is
much more complex than a food
chain. A food web is actually
several food chains joined together.
Because most organisms depend
on more than one species for food,
food webs are more accurate
models than food chains.
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