How many food chains are needed to make up a food web?
Answer Most animals eat several kinds of food and are likewise eaten by more than one kind of animal, so a food chain is usually a simplification of the idea of the food web. This means that a simple food web can be made with as little as two chains. A map of the food habits in a particular habitat has the potential to be a web made of thousands of food chains because of the sheer number of species present and the even larger number of interactions between them.
