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Title: FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD WEBS

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DEFINITION:


 * Food Chain: is a sequence of organisms through which energy is transferred, starting with the primary producer.
 * Food Web: a group of interrelated food chains.

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 * Animals that feed through a food web rather than a food chain are more likey to survive because they have alternative foods to eat, in case one of their food sources diminished or disappeared.


 * The chain finally culmiates with the top " top carnivore" which is not usually preyed upon by any other organism.


 * More often, top carnivores in food chain feed on a variety of organisms. These feeding relationships form a food web.

A herbivore ( animall that only eats plants) eats te producer, then one or more carnivores (animals that eats meat) eats the herbivore.
 * EX: Food Chain-

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Works Cited: Earth Science Book pg. 437 & 767