Given below is a list of autotrophs and heterotrophs. With your knowledge about the food chain, establish various linkages between the organisms on the principle of 'eating and being eaten'. What is this inter-linkage established known as?
Algae, hydrilla, grasshopper, rat, squirrel, crow, maize plant, deer, rabbit, lizard, wolf, snake, peacock, phytoplankton, crustaceans, whale, tiger, lion, sparrow, duck, crane, cockroach, spider, toad, fish, leopard, elephant, goat, Nymphaea, Spirogyra
This linkage that has been established herewith is known as a food web. It pertains to the interlocking between two or more types of the food chain at several tropic levels.
Primary Producer's (Tropic level I): Algae, a maize plant, Phytoplankton, Hydrilla, Nymphaea, and Spirogyra.
Primary Consumer (Tropic level II): Squirrel, grasshopper, deer, rabbit, elephant, crustaceans, mouse, goat.
Secondly Consumer (Tropic level III): Spider, fish, wolf, snake, cockroach, lizard, toad, and crane.
Top carnivore (Tropic level IV): Lion, Tiger. They are topmost carnivores.