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Food Webs

Published on Mar 28, 2016

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FOOD WEBS

Food webs

show the path of energy through an ecosystem.
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This soil food web includes life common in our outdoor classroom.

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Food webs have different trophic levels. "Troph" means eat.

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Sunlight

is the source of all the energy in a food web.
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Plants

convert sunlight to sugars and other molecules.
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Herbivores

eat only plants.
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Carnivores

eat only animals.
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Omnivores

eat plants and animals.
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Detritivores

include animals like pillbugs that eat organic debris.
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Scavengers

are detritivores.

Fungi

are detritivores too.
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Bacteria

break down the smallest organic debris.
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Pollution

and other factors can disturb and change food webs.
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