Question

A series of organisms that are linked to each other through a process of eating and being eaten form a

• A. Food net
• B. Food chain
• C. Food web
• D. None of these

Answer 1

The correct option is B

Food chain

The correct option is B.

Explanation of the correct option:

1. Food chain is the sequential arrangement of producer and consumer of a particular ecosystem according to prey predator relationship where eating being eaten takes place.
2. It usually starts from producer organisms though there are few food chain that starts from decomposer organisms.
3. In an ecosystem the producer consumer arrangement represents trophic structure where each level of a food chain represents a different trophic level.

Explanation of the incorrect options:

Option A:

Food net is used cover the food items to protect from dust and insects.

Option C:

In a particular ecosystem number of food chains overlap and interconnect to form and interlocking interlinking and interdependent pattern of network called food web.

Option D:

Food chain is the correct answer so none of these is an incorrect option.

Final answer: A series of organisms that are linked to each other through a process of eating and being eaten form a food chain.