Trophic relationships

The relationships between organisms that eat and organisms that are eaten are called trophic relationships.

A food chain shows the trophic relationships between different organisms.

What do you know about food chains?  

Where you see the arrow, substitute the words "is eaten by."




The maize is eaten by the locust. The locust is eaten by the lizard. The lizard is eaten by the snake.

What happens to the snake when it dies? It is broken down by decomposers (fungi and bacteria).

Try this game.

Learn about terrestrial ecosystems and play a game.

Make some food chains.




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