Open main menu

Food Web

Revision as of 10:45, 8 June 2019 by NRJC (talk | contribs) (Examples)

Key Stage 3

Meaning

A food web is a diagram made from many food chains linked together.

About Food Webs

Food webs always start with a producer.
The arrows in a food web always point from the food to the animal that eats it.

Examples

These two food chains can be combined into a food web.

FoodChain8.png
This a food chain.
FoodChain7.png
This a food chain.
FoodWeb1.png
This food web has been made by combining the two food chains.
FoodWeb2.png
This food web has trees, grass and bushes as producers at the bottom and Lions and Vultures as the top carnivores.
FoodWeb3.png
This food web has seaweed and phytoplankton as producers at the bottom and Blue Whales and Killer Whales as the top carnivores.

Key Stage 4

Meaning

A food web is a diagram which shows the feeding relationship between many organisms in a community.

About Food Webs

Food webs always begin with the first trophic level (a producer).
The arrows in a food web always show the direction of energy transfer between the trophic levels.
FoodWeb2.png
This a food web shows the feeding relationships between organisms in a community that live in a savanna habitat.
FoodWeb3.png
This a food web shows the feeding relationship between organisms in a community that live in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica which is both an arctic and an ocean habitat.