Science glossary · Ireland
Food web
A diagram of all the food chains in an ecosystem and how they link.
Arrows point from the thing that is eaten to the thing that eats it, showing the way energy moves.
Example: Grass → rabbit → fox, and grass → grasshopper → bird, joined in one web.
Lessons, worksheets, practice and tools on this: Ecosystems and food webs.
Related words
- Producer: A living thing that makes its own food, usually a plant.
- Ecosystem: All the living things in an area and the nonliving things they interact with.
- Decomposer: A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals and returns nutrients to the soil.
- Consumer: A living thing that gets its energy by eating other living things.
- Predator: An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
- Prey: An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.