| Food Webs By:Brian K.s |
| Food
Chains: |
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food chain is the balance of producers,
carnivores, herbavores,and scavengers. Whithout
this balance life would not exist. The producers
are at the bottom of the food chain, the are
eaten by herbavores and omnivores. The carnivores
and omnavores eat the herbavores. Scavengers eat
the animals that have died, or the animals that
are left over from other animals. Yet a food
chain does not show the "Big Picture"
of animals that exist, it only shows the animals
that don't have natural enimies or that are
powerful carnivores. |
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| Food
Webs: |
| A
food web is a representation of the balance of
animals being consumed by other animals. For
example an animal eats more than one kind of
animal, not just one as shown in a food chain.
This is better to explain the delicate balance
between having too many or too little of a
species. Another example is how humans eat (or
can eat) all types of animals if they want to.
Yet a food chain would only show the relationship
of a human to the next thing on the list. An
animal can be eaten on several levels though,
like how a mouse is eaten by snakes and hawks
together. |
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| The
Delicate Balance of Organisms: |
| There is a
delicate balance between all that exists, and all
that is eaten and eats. If there is an "unbalance"
then life would slowly be destroyed. For example
if all of the plants in an area were destroyed by
pollution, there wolud be no food for the
herbavores. In that there would be no food for
the carnivores. The last ones to be alive would
be the scavengers or the strongest carnivor. Yet
even though all the warnings have been broght up,
people are still destroying habitats for animals.
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