How Do You Make A Food Web With Given Information?
Food webs are visual examples of who eats whom. Although a food chain is a single path that depicts one animal being eaten by the next, a food web is a collection of many individual chains. Since one animal may have multiple sources of food, a food web is a more detailed and complete diagram. Building a food web demonstrates the interconnectedness of the given inhabitants of an ecosystem. Step 1 Categorize the given animals, plants and other specimens into the following categories that define their diets: decomposers (break down living matter), producers (use light energy for food), herbivores (eat only plants), omnivores (eat both plants and animals), carnivores (eat only meat), scavengers (eat animals that are already dead). Step 2 Construct a food web by drawing an arrow from the source of food to what eats it. In food webs, the direction of the arrow means “is eaten by.” You may choose to represent the data with pictures or simply write the name. Step 3 Check your data by tracing a
