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Food Chain and Food Web
Definition of Food Chain Types of Food Chain Definition of Food Web
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The cyclic transfer of food from producer to highest consumers and the relation of food and its consumers are known as food chain. Usually two types of food chain are found in nature:
1. Grazing or Predator Food Chain: It starts from the producer, goes to grazing herbivorous and gradually moves from the smaller carnivores to the bigger. It is known as grazing or predator food chain. E.g. Grass deer tiger.
2. Saprophytic or Detritus Food Chain: Decomposers split up dead bodies of plants and animals, these are taken as food by some animals and then the decomposers are converted into foods of other animals. Such as -
Dead body decomposer Amoeba Hydra, zooplankton fish.
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More Food ChainMore Food Chain
ProducerProducer ((trapped sunlight & trapped sunlight & stored food)stored food)
11stst order order ConsumeConsumerr
22ndnd Order Order ConsumConsumerer
33rdrd Order Order consumconsumerer
44thth Order Order ConsumConsumerer
Food WebFood Web
In a particular ecosystem, more than one food chains exists. When the members of different food chains become interrelated, then it is called food web.
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Feeding RelationshipsFeeding Relationships
Energy flows Energy flows through an through an ecosystem in ecosystem in oneone direction direction
from from producers toproducers to various levels various levels of of consumersconsumers