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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