Food Webs and Chains
Food Chains:
A food chain is a chain of organisms that eat other organisms. Organisms are whole living substances that live of from other organisms. The arrows point to what eats the animal at the beginning of the arrow. Food chains don't show the "Big Picture" because they only tell you one predator that the prey has, and they only tell you one prey the predator has.

Food Webs:
A food web is a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains. There are various roles that organisms take in a food web here are some examples. A producer is an organism that makes it's own energy. A first-level consumer eats the producer, the second-level consumer eats the first-level consumer, and the third-level consumer eats the second-level consumer.

The Delicate Balance of Organisms:
If the population of a population of a species decreaces or increases the whole way of life in the Amazon for animals goes out of whack. For instance if the snake population doubled the frog population would decrease and the fly population would increase because the frogs were not the same number as they were before the snakes population increased. Also with the habitat of the animals of the Amazon getting destroyed there are fewer places for them to live and more and more of the species are decreasing and setting the food chain out of balance.

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