'What’s the difference between a food chain & food web? What are you supposed to learn from a food chain? What are the lessons of a food web? You\'ll learn this and more in this video featuring clever animations and dynamic discussion by the singing zoologist, Lucas Miller! A food chain clearly shows how the sunlight energy plants use to make food gets passed on to consumers, like animals. A food web shows that the complexity of interdependence and interconnectedness much more. A food web still needs its producers, like plants or algae, but the real lesson of a food web is that living things in an ecosystem are connected through the different things they eat and the things that eat them. The clever animations here will help your students understand these important lessons of food chains and food webs. 0:00 Intro 0:14 Example of a food chain on land 0:26 Why you need to understand the food chain 0:49 Example of an ocean food chain 1:30 Example of ocean food web animation 2:32 Food webs show how living things are interconnected! Credits: Krill: Uwe Kils Shark: Diego Delso Blue whale NOAA/TBjornstad Phytoplankton, copepod: Proyecto agua Rabbit: enoch leung Grass--Tobias Geberth Leatherback Sea turtle: Alistaire Rae Mola larva: sailroue59-iso Mumbai clams: Pratishkhedekar Octopus-Sylke Rohrlach pelican-bluemist57 planktonic octopus larva: NOAA Photo Library SRR-iso Sardina_pilchardus1 Etrusko25 sea sponge wilfred hdez Sea_Anemone Bernard Spragg Sharp-shinned Hawk ALAN SCHMIERER Accipiter_striatus,_Canet_Road,_San_Luis_Obispo_1 Squid: Wills Bioluminescent jelly: JesseClaggett Unknown zooplankton (looks like spikeball): Plankton02-VPRO Beagle Unknown plankton (looks like lollipop)-per.aasen-ARR Images licensed through iStockphoto: Mackerel Two of the phytoplankton examples The crab larva picture is used by permission but I can’t find the name of that photographer. If it’s you, let me know!'
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