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Food Chains and Food Webs
A food chain is a indicator of the producers and consumers of different habitats. Ask questions about the food chains of different ecosystems here.
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What are the producers in a desert food chain?
Saguaro cactus, sagebrush, creosote, and mesquite. All of which are types of plants in the desert and are considered producers.
The Antarctic food chain exists in the Southern Ocean which surrounds the continent. There is no food chain on land.
The Southern Ocean food chain operates like every other ocean sea chain -- except that this one is the shortest food chain.
You can read more, below.
How do you fit into a food web or energy pyramid?
Humans fit into the food web alot. Say if grass dies then the grasshopper goes extinct, then the frog goes extinct and then the tiger goes extinct then that will effect the the whole web.
Where do shrimp fit in the food web?
sun then algae then shrimp then the fish eat the shrimp then either humans catch the fish and eat it or a bigger fish eats it.
What is a fiddler crabs food chain?
the fiddler crab has a food chain starting with none other than its self
What is a food chain or food web for Sahara desert?
The Producers - the trees, shrubs and grass.
These producers make their food using the process of photosynthesis and are eaten by various herbivores in the Savanna lands. they gather up their energy from the sun to grow along with the yearly inundation.
The Primary Consumers - the zebra, elephants, antelope, and water buffalo.
These primary consumers consume the plants.
The Secondary Consumers - the cheetah, lions, snakes, and lemurs.
These secondary consumers catch their prey the primary consumers and consume them.
The Scavengers - the termites, vultures, hyena, ants, and crickets.
These scavengers then come along and eat the leftover chunks of meat the primary consumers left and didn't eat.
The Decomposes or Detriments - mushrooms, insects and microorganisms.
These break down the remnants of what the scavengers left. breaking down the bones and releases energy back to the sun and provides nutrients to the soils and becomes a fertilizer. then new plant life is produced.
every plant eaters and small insects
What is a cunsumer of a food chain?
A consumer is an organism in a food chain than obtains energy(chemical energy) from food such as another organism e.g a cow eats the grass. The cow is a primary consumer; a tiger eats the cow; the tiger is a secondary consumer
So Anything in the food chain/web after the producer (plant) is a consumer
Food chain and food webs show?
A food chain shows how one animal eats another such as...
Plant -----> Mouse ------> Snake -----> Owl
Where a food web is composed of many more animals eating more than one thing like...
Plant ----> Mouse ------> Snake -----> Owl
\ /
Bug ----------------> Frog
There are much more complex food webs than that, but that is just to give you a general idea.
What happens when a herbivore is removed from a food chain?
If a herbivore is removed from the food chain ,the level one carnivores which would otherwise eat the herbivore,would starve to death,as they can not eat producers nor can they eat level 2 or level 3 carnivores.
ex. in a foodchain of grass-grasshopper-frog-snake ,if we remove grasshopper(herbivore),frog the level 1 carnivore,would die of starvation as it can not eat grass,nor can it eat snake.It will get in to other foodchains for survival and will disturb the regular echosystem.
How do food chain differ from a food web?
A food chain is easily destroyed because, it doesn't accurately show all the kinds of organisms that each heterotroph can consume to get energy from. Therefore, food webs display the various pathways that energy movement can happen in an ecosystem so it does no have to be rearranged.
What is the advantage of a food web over food chains?
because they contain a larger amount of animals and how each one is prey to the other.
What are the predators of cuttlefish?
Cuttlefishes primary predators are large fish like sharks, monkfish, swordfish.
yeah i think dolphins and Narwhal eat them but strangely only the head!
What do food chains always start with?
What is a food beginning with a?
What is it called when Mice feed on acorns owls feed on mice?
It's called a food chain- a hierarchical series of organisms that are dependent on the next as a source of food. Usually shown in a linear fashion:
ex. Owl --> mouse --> acorn
How do you make a food web using Microsoft office?
I dont think you can, but I would suggest just to copy and paste images from google. XDD
well in rivers, smallmouth go by areas where a boulder breaks the current, beacuse bait fish and crayfish get caught up in the current then the smallmouth come up and eat them. in lakes, smallmouth hang out around rock piles and grass beds to feed on mainly crayfish and then come up to the surface to feed on minnows and shad
An Angler Fish eats fish, srimps and crustaceans. There is a huge diffence between the female angler fish and the male. He eats smaller portions at younger age; because he is very small compare to the female.
The Female can grow up to 47 inches and the male only to 2.5 inches. Saying this when the male is grown enough, if he attached himself to the female by bitting her skin that will be HIS LAST BITE!
For that moment on he will mate forever with that Female and will depend on her for everything including nourishemnt(feed). Their bodies will become one and the only way that the male can feed is attaching himself to the female blood streamed; and this is for the rest of his life. He will lose all his organs including his eyes.
The angler fish male does not have a digest tube.
What is the blue tangs food chain?
the cat to the monkey to the dog to elephant to the fish to the mouse to the ant then to the blue tangs.
In a rock pool what adaptations does a small fish have?
I know this isn't much, but the fish is so small it can fit through the teeth of other fish that are bigger than it in the rock pool. Also the fish has gills which allows it to swim far down in the water and stay in the water because one of its predators (the seagull) can't go in the water. Lastly, the fishes scales tend to be dark green so they can camouflage. But say the fish is a florescent color then because its small it can squeeze into small rock gaps.
