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The meadow food web
A food web shows many food chains in one place, and they link up because animals eat more than one kind of food. The arrows point from the food to the animal that eats it, so they show where the energy goes.
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- Grass is a producer: it makes its own food from sunlight, and both the rabbit and the grasshopper eat it.
- The grasshopper eats grass, then the frog eats the grasshopper, and the hawk eats the frog.
- The fox and the hawk both eat the rabbit, so two chains cross here.
- The hawk is at the top and gets food from two different chains.
Examples
- In a garden, aphids eat rose leaves, ladybirds eat aphids, and blackbirds eat both ladybirds and earthworms.
- In the sea, tiny plankton feed small fish, and both seals and seabirds eat those fish.
Key takeaways
- A food web is many food chains joined together.
- If one living thing disappears, many others in the web are affected.
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