• Question: What is a food web

    Asked by romario to Liza on 4 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Liza Selley

      Liza Selley answered on 4 Jun 2018:

      Hi Romario

      A food web is a way of showing which organisms eat other ones – as a picture rather than written as sentences. Usually you would make a food web for a particular environment. In a pond it might be something like this… (–> means ‘is eaten by’).

      Algae –> mosquitoe larvae –> fish –> heron

      What makes this a ‘web’ is when you include lots of links between different organisms e.g. a fish could also eat water beetles or the algae. Have a look at this page to see a good example of this and how it is more complex than a food chain…

      https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-food-Web

      Hope that makes sense!

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