Definition of Food web

a network of food chains or feeding relationships through which energy and nutrients are passed on

Examples of Food web in a sentence

The teacher had the students draw out a food web showing which animals the fox ate and which animals ate the fox.  🔊

Scientists presented a detailed food web that displayed how the decrease in bee population is hurting all of the animals in the ecosystem.  🔊

Researchers found that newly induced animals were hurting the lake’s food web by killing fish that are native to the water.  🔊

Because very few animals can threaten a whale, it is one of top of the marine predators in the food web.  🔊

There are many consumers in a food web, but all of these animals’ nutrients can be traced back to a plant source.  🔊

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