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Standard IX
Biology
Characteristics of Ecosystem
All food chai...
Question
All food chains begin with ____.
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Solution
Food chains:
Sequential process of food transfer from plants to herbivores to carnivores is termed a
food chain
.
All living organisms have a feeding pattern.
Herbivores feed on the plants.
Plants are the
producers
whereas the herbivores will be considered as
primary consumers
.
Carnivores feeding on the herbivores are called
secondary consumers
.
Therefore, all food chains start with a producer.
Final answer:
All food chains begin with
producers
.
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You have read about food chains in this chapter. Each living thing is a part of multiple food chains – for example, grass is a part of the food chain: grass → grasshopper → frog → snake → eagle, and also of the food chain: grass → deer → tiger.
All of the interconnected and overlapping food chains in a habitat make up a food web.
See the given food web and answer these questions.
1. From the food web, construct two different food chains, each with four links.
2. If all the eagles were killed, what would happen to the number of
a. squirrels?
b. earthworms?