Science Common Sense

346 - How do food webs differ from food chains?

A food chain shows how one animal eats another animal in a straight line (e.g., mouse eats grass, snake eats mouse, eagle eats snake).

A food web, on the other hand, is like a big network of many food chains crossed together. It shows that one animal can be eaten by many different animals and can also eat many different animals. It's like a big spider web of who eats who.

So, food chains are simple and straight, while food webs are more complex and show all the different connections between the animals in an ecosystem.