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The document explains the concept of food webs, illustrating how various food chains within an ecosystem are interconnected through different trophic levels. It outlines the roles of producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and apex predators, emphasizing the impact of changes in species populations on the entire food web. Additionally, it highlights the consequences of human activity on natural habitats and the potential collapse of the food web if key species are removed.

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Food-Web

The document explains the concept of food webs, illustrating how various food chains within an ecosystem are interconnected through different trophic levels. It outlines the roles of producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and apex predators, emphasizing the impact of changes in species populations on the entire food web. Additionally, it highlights the consequences of human activity on natural habitats and the potential collapse of the food web if key species are removed.

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Food Web

Prepared by: Ms. Mekhan


Recall: Food Chains
Food chains follow a single path as animals eat each other
Do these animals live in the same habitat?

Shrub
Rabbit Lion

Shrub
Deer Tiger

How do we show how animals in different food chains that are found in
the same habitat are connected?
What is a food web?

A food web shows how Tiger


all of the food chains in Lion

an ecosystem are
connected.

This is because each


Rabbit
organism in an
ecosystem occupies a Deer

specific position in the


food chain or web
(trophic level). Shrub
Trophic levels

Energy Flow
Producers: Make their own food

Primary Consumers: Mostly herbivores

Secondary Consumers: Eat primary consumers. Can be


omnivores or carnivores.

Tertiary Consumers: Eats primary and secondary consumers

Apex Predators: Have no predators other than humans


Constructing food webs
Higher level consumers at the top

Consumer C

Consumer A Consumer B

Producer A Producer B Producer C

Start from the bottom with producers


Example Questions
1. Name a producer
2. Name a herbivore
3. How many secondary
consumers are there?
4.Are there any tertiary
consumers
Changes in the food web
Nearly every species of animals is dependent on number
of other species for survival.

Currently human activity is damaging the natural habitats


of many animals.

This will not affect the animals in the area, but it could
have far-reaching effects on the rest of the species in
the food web.

If the population of a species declines dramatically how


might this affect the other species that depend upon it?
Changes in the food web
The organisms in a food
web are highly dependent
on each other.

Even a small change in the


number of producers or
consumers can have
dramatic effects on the
rest of the food chain
Changes in the food web
What might
happen if there
were no
producers?
Changes in the food web
The removal of the
producers would
cause the collapse
of the entire food
web
Changes in the food web
Predict what would
happen if primary
consumers were
removed from the
food web

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