The main advantage of the food chain is that it is simple and easy to understand what organisms eat and ho the energy flows between them. It's very simple and usually only 3-4 chians long inrespect to a food web which shows a collection of the food chains linked together thus gives a broader and a fuller picture of the feeding relationships between organisms. The main limitation of a food chain compared to a foodweb is that the food chain only shows that a consumer only feeds on one type of prey but in the food web the consumer could on more than one prey.
The main disadvantages of both the food chains and the food web is that the they both only possess qualitative information and dont show any quantitaive information thus you cannot know the number or the amount of mass or the energy stored within each trophic level.
Food webs and food chains are mostly the same
Food chains and food webs are different. This is because the webs have more relative food choices whereas the chains are limited.
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Food webs
it shows how food chains are related.
food webs.
Ecological Pyramids.
A food web is many food chains.
Food chains and webs not only describe the order in which organisms are eaten, but they also describe the _____.
Food chains/webs.
aquatic and terrestrial The chains
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