Introduction - Food Chains & Food Webs

Chain, chain, chains! Chains of food! Ecosystems are made up of food chains. All the food chains have common connections that bind them together to form food webs. Do you know the difference between a food chain and a food web? 

What would you get if you combined vegetables with a necklace?

A food chain!

That's enough jokes (for now). Let's start to explore the important parts of a food chain. Then we'll figure out what a food web is. And we will learn about the different roles organisms like plants, animals, and fungi have in food chains and food webs. When you are ready to learn more, click the "Activities" link on the left for the educational content and activities you came here for!