Food webs and food chains are two different ways that ecologists illustrate the interrelatedness of organisms in an ecosystem. What is the relationship between a food web and food chain?

A.

Food webs illustrate all the organisms in an ecosystem dependent on one food chain.

B.

Food chains are only used to illustrate organisms that consume only one kind of organism rather than multiple kinds of organisms, as illustrated in a food web.

C.

Food webs illustrate multiple interrelated food chains.

D.

Food chains illustrate only one trophic level of a food web.

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2 October, 09:56

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Emerson Anderson · Answer 1

c : Food webs illustrate multiple interrelated food chains.

Explanation:

A food web is the aggregation and the junction of various food chains.