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Ecology 2
Food Webs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Food chain | a simplified arrangement of who eats who (how energy is transferred from organism to organism) in a community or ecosystem assuming that each organism only eats one type of food |
| Food web | an extension of the food chain idea using a web-like diagram to show the network of who eats who (how energy is transferred from organism to organism) in a community or ecosystem recognizing that each organism eats many types of food |
| Producer | organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis or other chemical means (ie. Plants, algae, photosynthesizing bacteria and plankton, etc.) |
| Consumer | organisms that consume other organisms rather than producing their own food (ie. Everything but producers) |