Differences between food chains & food webs in ecosystem
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This document compares food webs and food chains. It explains that a food chain shows a single, linear pathway of organisms eating one another, starting with a producer like grass and ending with a top predator like a hawk. A food web is more complex, showing multiple possible feeding relationships and pathways through an ecosystem. It provides the example of a hawk that may prey on mice, squirrels or frogs, rather than just the single organism depicted in a food chain.
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