Why Would a Food Web Rather Than a Food Chain

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Multiple Choice

Why would a food web rather than a food chain be the preferred way to represent the movement of food through the community?

• A)Food chains are oversimplified and suggest that a consumer eats only a single food item.
• B)Food webs place producers at the bottom, whereas food chains place them at the top.
• C)Food webs are based on a foundation of producers.
• D)Actually, ecologists prefer to use food chains to describe food movements.

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