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| Food Chains: | |
| A food chain is is a succession of organisms in an ecological community that constitutes a continuation of food energy from one organism to another as each consumes a lower member and in turn is preyed upon by a higher member. The arrows on a food chain indicate the movement of energy. The arrows point in a certain way because the arrows point to what each organisms eats or is eaten by. A food chain doesn't display all of the relationships between the organisms because there are too many relationships and it would be very confusing to list all of them and then try and read it. | |
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| Food Webs: | |
| A food web is a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains. A producer is a plant that provides food for the herbivores and the omnivores. A consumer is an organisms that consumes food from others of eats its prey. A primary consumer is an organism that eats the producers. A secondary consumer eats the herbivores. A herbivore as an organism that eats the plants or the producers. An omnivore is an organism that eats meat and producers. A carnivore is an organism that eats meat. A top carnivore is a carnivore that can eat almost everything in the place that he is, without being eaten by hardly anything. | |
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The Delicate Balance of Organisms: |
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The food web either gains animals or loses them, and when you're gaining the animals, the others have more food. When losing them, the others lose food and could make them die from starvation. The disappearance of the organisms is connected to the destruction of the rain forest because as the rain forest is being destroyed, animals have to move to find a new home and more food. |
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