SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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System of several overlapping food chains
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energy moving from one level to the next
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living/nonliving factors in an ecisystem
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -All of the interconnected and overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up a food web. Organisms in food webs are grouped into categories called trophic levels. Roughly speaking, these levels are divided into producers (first trophic level), consumers, and decomposers (last trophic level).
Detailed explanation-2: -This type of interlinking of food chains forms a food web.
Detailed explanation-3: -Level 1: Plants (producers) Level 2: Animals that eat plants or herbivores (primary consumers) Level 3: Animals that eat herbivores (secondary consumers, carnivores)
Detailed explanation-4: -The different feeding positions in a food chain or web are called trophic levels. The first trophic level consists of producers, the second of primary consumers, the third of secondary consumers, and so on. There usually are no more than four or five trophic levels in a food chain or web.
Detailed explanation-5: -The interlocking pattern of various food chains is referred as food web.