Forest –

Flipclass –
Food
Chain
By Riddhiman
Banerjee 
7A
What Is
Food Chain
• A food chain is a linear
network of links in a food
web starting from producer
organisms and ending at an
apex predator species,
detritivores, or decomposer
species. A food chain also
shows how organisms are
related to each other by the
food they eat.
 Food Chains:
• (a) Food chain
• The sequence of living organisms in a community in which one
organism consumes another organism to transfer food energy
is called a food chain.
• An example of a simple food chain is that operating in a
grassland:
• Grass (Producer)⟶Deer (Herbivore)⟶Lion(Carnivore)
(b) Food web
• The inter-connected food chains operating in an ecosystem
that establish a network of relationships among various
species comprise a food web.
• A food web is formed by many food chains operating together.
A food web operating in grassland is shown in the figure.
Continuation:
• Examples - 
• Five food chains are possible in this
food web, which are as follows.
1) Grass → Grasshopper → Frog →
Hawk
2) Grass → Grasshopper → Rat → Fox
3) Grass → Rabbit → Fox
4) Grass → Rat → Snake →Hawk
5) Grass → Rat → Hawk
Important Facts
on Food Chain:
• Did you know?
• Food chains can link together to form
food webs.
• In a food chain, energy is passed
from one link to another.
• In a food chain, each species occupies
a certain position in the chain.
• Green plants, and some kinds of
bacteria, are the most important
producers.
• A predator is carnivorous.
This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-SA.
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