Food Chains and Food Webs

A food web is a network of interconnected food chains showing the flow of energy within an ecosystem. It consists of multiple food chains that overlap and interact, depicting the feeding relationships between various organisms in a specific ecosystem.

Fairy Penguins feed on small fish like anchovies, pilchards, and squid. They are also preyed upon by larger marine predators such as sharks, seals, and sea birds. Fairy Penguins are an important link in the marine food web, contributing to energy transfer from lower to higher trophic levels.

Yes, they can spray pesticides, which would harm and kill the bugs around. Also, other harmful chemicals. Us hunting animals to nearly extinction. Also eating could disrupt it, but we cannot change that fact because humans cannot stop eating. air pollution into the atmosphere disrupts the ozone layer, causing global warming. Effect could be the ice caps melting, which causes polar bears harder to find fish and stay safe, which in that case, their population could go down

Pollution into the water, could kill fish and other aquatic mammals. Also throwing plastics and other garbage into oceans and other water sources. Oil spills, even though they are obviously accidental, they do disrupt the food chain.

Basically, anything harmful, a substance, catastrophe, or many other things we humans do does disrupt the food chain. Hope this helps.

Removing a population from a food web or food chain can disrupt the balance of the ecosystem. It can lead to a decrease in predator populations that rely on that species for food, causing a cascading effect on other species in the ecosystem. This can result in changes in species abundance, distribution, and overall ecosystem health.

The number of food chains in a Florida upland community can vary depending on the diversity of species present and their interactions. Typically, there are multiple food chains within an ecosystem as different organisms feed on each other in a complex network of energy flow.

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but there are the types of organisms:

The producer- usually a plant that produces energy through photosynthesis, creating food for omnivores and herbivores.

The consumer- the consumer's role in the ecosystem is to eat the producers (in a food chain, a consumer that eats the producer would be the primary consumer, whatever eats the primary consumer is the secondary consumer, and so on)(Hint: the 'top' or 'territiary' consumer is the animal that is not prey to any other consumer)

The decomposer- bacteria or fungi that breaks down dead organisms, often called the 'natural recyclers'

I assume you mean the energy flow diagram. The sun should be present.

EDIT: Sorry, food web, I remember now. Its strictly a transfer of material. The sun does not transfer any material to plants, and so is not present in food webs.

The number of organisms typically decreases as you move up the food chain. This is due to energy loss at each trophic level, with only about 10% of energy being transferred from one level to the next. Therefore, less energy is available to support a large number of organisms at higher trophic levels.

At the start of a food chain or web, you will always find producers, such as plants and algae. These are organisms that can create their own food through photosynthesis and form the base of the food chain by providing energy for other organisms to consume.

Less energy and effort is required to produce them. This is not necessarily an advantage for you personally as opposed to for the community of humans as a whole, though it does mean they tend to cost less.

Food webs on land typically have a more complex structure with more levels of consumers compared to those in water. On land, primary producers are mostly plants, while in water, phytoplankton are a major source of primary production. Additionally, terrestrial food webs have more diverse animal species due to the higher availability of resources on land.

If the population of one organism increased, it could lead to competition for resources among species at lower trophic levels, causing potential shifts in the food chain dynamics. This could result in either an increase or decrease in the populations of other organisms in the food chain, depending on the specific interactions and relationships within the ecosystem.

In the alpine biome, the food chain typically consists of primary producers like mosses and lichens being consumed by herbivores such as marmots and mountain goats. These herbivores are then preyed upon by predators like eagles and foxes. Decomposers like bacteria and fungi break down the remains of dead organisms, completing the food chain.

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Yes, herbivores are an important part of a food chain. They consume producers (plants) and are then consumed by carnivores and omnivores, forming a crucial link in the transfer of energy and nutrients through ecosystems.

food chain- grass->tipaklong->frog->snake->eagle->bacteria

The different steps or levels of a food chain or web are called "trophic levels." They can also be characterized as producers or consumers. The consumers can be characterized as first order, second order, tertiary, etc. And then there are the scavengers and decomposers.

cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower (these are all known as cruciferous vegetables), sunflower seeds, garlic , onions, asparagus, avocados, beans, peas, mustard, horse-radish, lentils, soybeans, and yogurt.

Carnivores cannot be primary consumers in a food chain because they feed on other animals rather than plants or algae, which are the sources of energy in the trophic levels below them. Primary consumers, also known as herbivores, feed directly on producers to obtain energy.

After the producer in the food chain comes the primary consumer, which is usually an herbivore that feeds directly on the producer.

No, the weakest link is actually the most vulnerable part of a chain and the one most likely to break under stress. Strengthening the weakest link is important for improving the overall strength and reliability of the chain.

An omnivore.

This happens because the quantity of energy available in the organisms as food to the next trophic level decreases as you move through the food chain. For example, there may be 1000 Calories of food available if you eat the grass in a section of meadow, but only about 100 Calories in the grasshoppers in that section of meadow. That may not be enough food to support the things that eat grasshoppers, and so on. This limits the length and diversity of food chains. The longest and most complex food chains are in the open ocean!

A ball of chewed up food is called a bolus. It forms in the mouth during the chewing process and is then swallowed to move down the esophagus and into the stomach for further digestion.

Each level in a food chain contains less energy because energy is lost as heat through metabolic processes like respiration and digestion as it moves up the chain. This means that less energy is available for transfer to the next level.