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Life on the Earth
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What do you understand by the term ‘food web’ ? Give examples.

Answer

A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

For example a mouse feeding on grain may be eaten by different secondary consumers (carnivores) and these carnivores may be eaten by another set of different tertiary consumers.

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