Science Common Sense

136 - What is a food web?

A food web is like a big circle that shows how animals eat and are eaten by other animals in an ecosystem. It starts with plants (like grass and leaves), which are eaten by small animals (like insects and rabbits), which are then eaten by bigger animals (like birds and foxes), and so on.

Imagine a big diagram with all these animals connected by lines that show "who eats who." It's called a web because it's a network of connections between different animals and plants in an ecosystem.

For example: - Grass is eaten by grasshoppers. - Grasshoppers are eaten by lizards. - Lizards are eaten by snakes. - Snakes are eaten by hawks.

That's a simple food web. It shows how energy and food go from one animal to another in an ecosystem.