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Webs |
| Food Chains: |
| A food chain is a picture or
chart-type line that shows energy moving from one
animal to another. It is often shown from a
producerto a herbivore to a carnivore, with the
herbivore eating the producer and the carnivore
eating the herbivore. |
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| Food Webs: |
A food web is a chart that
shows different animals (producers, herbivores,
carnivores, omnivores, etc.) and what they eat.
It is better than a food chain in most cases
because it show a bigger picture of the animals
and shows more of the things they eat.
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| The Delicate Balance of
Organisms: |
| If a food chain gets messed
up because of a population change, like if the
number of producers went down, the number of
herbivores would decrease because there would not
be enough food for them, and then the carnivores
would not have enough food either. When people
cut down the rainforest, animals lose homes and
producers die so the population can go way down
and cause some species to go extinct. |
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