A series of plants or animals linked together by their food relationships or a specific nutrient and energy pathway. (See also food web.)
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(food web) A chain of organisms along which energy, in the form of food passes. An organism feeds on the preceding link and is in turn prey for the succeeding link.
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A sequence of organisms each of which uses the next lower member of the sequence as a food source.
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a sequence of organisms in a community in which each member of the chain feeds on the member below it, as in fox, rabbit and grass.
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A series of organisms connected by their feeding habits; each link in the food chain is eaten by a larger one, which is eaten by a still larger one.
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shows how each living thing gets its food. Some animals eat plants and some animals eat other animals. Each link in this chain is food for the next link. A food chain always starts with plant life and ends with an animal. :: Food Safety Promotion Board (8th Edition)
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a feeding sequence, such as seed-to-songbird-to-raptor, used to describe the flow of energy and materials in an ecosystem (adapted from Ehrlich and Roughgarden 1980:620).
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A series of organisms connected by their feeding habits; each link in the food chain is eaten by a larger one, which is eaten by a still larger one.
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a feeding sequence, such as seed-to-songbird-to-raptor, used to describe the flow of energy and materials in an ecosystem (adapted from Ehrlich and Roughgarden 1987:620).
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a feeding sequence, such as seed-to-songbird-to-raptor, used to describe the flow of energy and materials in an ecosystem (adapted from Ehrlich and Roughgarden 1987620).
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A model that shows how plants and animals are linked together because each one eats or is eaten by another.
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(Living things in their environment) (diagram of) a sequence of feeding relationships between organisms, showing who eats what and the movement of energy through trophic levels
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a sequence of living things that describes feeding relationships
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(food webs, food networks and/or trophic networks) describe the feeding relationships between species within an ecosystem.
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a system that carries energy through living organisms
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a system that carries nutrition through living organisms
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a system that carries nutrition through living organisms
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A sequence of organisms, each of which uses the next, lower member of the sequence as a food source.
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A sequence of organisms, each of which uses the next lower member of the sequence as a food source.
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A list of organisms showing how each depends on another for food.
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A series of plants and animals each depending on the next for food. A food chain shows who eats what! Energy is transferred from one organism to another through the food chain.
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a sequence of feeding relationships by which energy is transferred from primary producers to consumers.
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a community of organisms in which each member is eaten in turn by another member
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a series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc.
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A simple, direct, and trophic, or eating, relationship among a group of organisms, where one organism, like a plant, is the food source for the next organism, like a cow, which in turn is the food source for the next organism, like a human, and so on and so forth.
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