Importance of food chains and webs?

Answer 1

Food webs are important because they show how energy passes from one animal to another and it tell scientists more about the animals.

Answer 2

Food webs link together many different food chains =D

Answer 3

Food webs diagram the interaction of multiple food chains within a certain ecosystem, showing the mutual dependency of species and the natural balance of habitats that sustain animal and plant life.

Function

Food webs distinguish levels of producers and consumers by identifying and defining the importance of animal relationships and food sources, beginning with primary producers such as plants, insects and herbivores.

Significance

Food webs are important tools in understanding that plants are the foundation of all ecosystems and food chains, sustaining life by providing nourishment and oxygen needed for survival and reproduction.

Considerations

Food webs aid in the understanding of natural selection, showing the hierarchy of species, with carnivorous, omnivorous and tertiary animals at the top of all food chains.

Benefits

A food web benefits life science lessons on physical and behavioral adaptations of plants and animals by representing a pattern of consumption based upon natural survival attributes and instincts.

Potential

Food webs are helpful in explaining how disruptions in populations due to over-hunting, poaching, global warming and habitat destruction result in food scarcities leading to extinction

Answer 4

Food chains and webs ensure that one particular species cannot become too large and therefore destroy the species it feeds on, creating a massive inbalance. This means that every creature has a predator and/or environmental threats so their population cannot increase to an amount that is unhealthy for the surounding ecosystem.

Answer 5

Food webs and chains depict which animals eat what. This is very important for ecosystems because if you know what the animals survive on, you will know what will damage and improve the ecosystem.

For example, if you remove all the grass from an isolated ecosystem, all the herbivores (Plant eaters) will die, which will in turn cause the meat eaters, or carnivores to die, e.t.c.

Answer 6

Food webs are more important because they show more, different overlapping paths that shows one organism may eat more than one organism. If one organism is extinct from the food web, then the other organism that eats it can still devour another organism in their following food so they can survive, but the balance of the food web will still be broken, just not as quickly as the food chains.

Food chains only show one path of how energy is transferred. So if one organism from the food chain is extinct, the whole food chain will be in-balanced.

Answer 7

Food webs are important because they show how energy passes from one animal to another and it tell scientists more about the animals.