Combined Science GCSE
Food chain
What Food chain means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Food chain
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Reference: AQA
A representation of feeding relationships within a community, in which arrows show the direction of energy transfer from one organism to the next.
Topics that use Food chain
- Levels of organisation (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Abiotic factors and species distribution
- Accuracy of plotting
- Biomass
- Community
- Line or curve of best fit
- Mean
- Median
- Photosynthesis
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