food chain
Other forms: food chains
If your pet mouse eats your pet spider and then your pet snake eats your pet mouse, you've helped make a food chain. Congratulations!
A food chain is an arrangement of the organisms of an ecological community according to the order in which they eat each other. The entire ecological community, from large animals down to plants, insects and even algae, are fed into each other in size order. We also use food chain metaphorically for relationships of human power. If you were just promoted from office boy to senior consultant at your glam magazine, then you just moved up the food chain.
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(ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another membertype of:organic phenomenon(biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals
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Physical geography will be a breeze once you master this list of terms related to Earth's physical features. You'll review climate and weather, landforms and bodies of water, biomes and ecosystems, and the geological structure of the Earth — and that's just the tip of the iceberg!
Physical geography will be a breeze once you master this list of terms related to Earth's physical features. You'll review climate and weather, landforms and bodies of water, biomes and ecosystems, and the geological structure of the Earth — and that's just the tip of the iceberg!
Physical geography will be a breeze once you master this list of terms related to Earth's physical features. You'll review climate and weather, landforms and bodies of water, biomes and ecosystems, and the geological structure of the Earth — and that's just the tip of the iceberg!