Answer: A food chain is a linear link in a food web, and a food web shows how different paths are connected.
Explanation:
<u>A food chain is a linear link in a food web</u> which starts from a producer organism and ends at predator species and decomposer species. A food chain follows only one path, so they begin with one plant and end with one animal, and shows how an organism gets nutrients and energy and how are those passed to another organism. A simple food chain could start with grass, which is eaten by rabbits, which is eaten by a snake, which is decomposed by earthworms.
<u>A food web shows how different paths are connected</u>. It indicates how a consumer animal may feed on several producing animals or plants. At the same time, several decomposers can act on the same organism. An example of a food web is that there ar many decomposers (microbes, earthworms, fungi) to decompose the same animal.
Thereby, a food web consists of many food chains.
