Designing Food Webs -

Designing Food Webs
Fairfax County Public Schools

A food web is a series of interacting food chains. Food chains show the order in which animals consume food. Food chains and food webs are made up of Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers.

Producers: Plants. Plants pull nutrients from the soil and transform those nutrients into matter which animals, fungi, or bacteria can use.

Consumers: Animals or other organisms which consume (eat) something. Consumers eat producers (plants) or other consumers. An animal that eats a plant is a primary (first level) consumer. An animal that eats an animal that eats plants is a secondary (2nd level) consumer

Decomposers: Animals, fungi, or other organisms which break down animal or plant matter after it dies. This puts minerals back into the soil for plants to use again.

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