Feeding Relationships

• A food web is a network of interconnected food chains within an ecosystem.
• Trophic level= The position of an organism in the food chain e.g: Producer
• Food Chain:

  A) Producer

  B) Primary Consumer

  C) Secondary Consumer

  D) Tertiary Consumer

  
• The arrows in the food chain represents the transfer of biomass or energy from one trophic level to another

  
• Producer= Organisms that make their own food from the energy in the sun
• Consumers= Organisms that eat other organisms for sustenance
• Number of prey and predators rise and fall in cycles
• What factors can affect the number of predator and prey cycle?


  > Environmental Changes

  > Humans hunting
• Name one limit of the food chain

  > Doesn't show outside influences