Biology GCSE
food web
What food web means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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A set of chains in which a secondary consumer may eat several different herbivores, so it can appear in more than one chain.
Interconnected chains formed because many organisms eat more than one type of food.
Topics that use food web
- Levels of organisation (AQA GCSE)
- Trophic levels (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Consumers
- Energy transfer
- Photosynthesis
- Producers
- Trophic level
- Trophic levels
- Absorption of soluble nutrients
- Algae
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