Question

Define food web

Answer 1

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

1. Most consumers have more than one source of food.
2. Frogs eat caterpillars besides grasshoppers.
3. Snakes eat rabbits as well as lizards, mice and rats.
4. Rats are also eaten by hawks.
5. Thus, a plant or animal may be a part of several food chains.
6. Several food chains are interconnected to form a food web.