| Food Webs and
Food Chains! |
| Food Chains:
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| A food chain is
a chain of living originisams that get energy from each other by eating
each other. The arrows represent the flow of energy from one originisam
to another.
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| Food Webs: |
| A food web shows
the pattern of what eats what. The roles the orginisams take are depending
on each other for energy.
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The
Delicate Balance of Organisms:
All of the orginisams depend
on each other to get energy, by eating each other. If the population of one
species gose down then the population of another species will go down also because
they would have less food to eat. As an example the snake eats the mouse, the
mouse eats the plant, and the plant makes its own food, that is called photosynthesis,
say the mouses population is wiped out than the snake population would go down
then the hawk, and so on, because they would have less energy to consume.