Question

A food web is more realistic than food chain tor showing the feeding relationship in an ecosystem because

• A. it compares the number of consumers to the number of microorganisms in an ecosystem
• B. food chains use only a small sampling of organisms
• C. a food web explains why there are more producers than consumers
• D. producers are usually eaten by many different consumers and most consumers are eaten by more than one predator

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Food webs are more realistic because they show that the producers are usually eaten by many different consumers and most consumers are eaten by more than one predator, A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and generally a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.