ECOLOGY
ENERGY FLOW AND THE FOOD CHAIN
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a sequence of steps that shows one pathway for energy flow from organism to organism
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the position an organism holds in the food chain
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a network of many trophic level pyramids
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a network of many food chains
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Detailed explanation-1: -food web, a complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community. A food chain shows how matter and energy from food are transferred from one organism to another, whereas a food web illustrates how food chains intertwine in an ecosystem.
Detailed explanation-2: -A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem. Each organism in an ecosystem occupies a specific trophic level or position in the food chain or web. Producers, who make their own food using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, make up the bottom of the trophic pyramid.
Detailed explanation-3: -Food web: Food web is a system of interconnected food chains. It has numerous food chains. Many food chains form a food web.
Detailed explanation-4: -Food webs, which depict networks of trophic relationships in ecosystems, provide complex yet tractable depictions of biodiversity, species interactions, and ecosystem structure and function.
Detailed explanation-5: -A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community. Another name for food web is consumer-resource system.