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Anguishing Amber:
Here are the answers: yes, no, and here it goes. Just about everything living is a part of some
food chain or food web. Why? Because living things need energy and animals get their energy from
having a good meal. In the end, you're either sitting at the dinner table or being served at the
dinner table.
Let's start with food chains. Take that tuna fish sandwich you had for lunch. You are at the
top end of a chain that started with microscopic plant life in the ocean which got its energy from
the sun. It, in turn, got eaten by a large tuna -- a chunk of which was mixed with mayo f or your
sandwich. What about that container of milk? This time, you're at the top end of a chain that
starts with the sun providing energy to grasses and corn which are then eaten by a cow which
produced the milk you drank.
So what's a web, you ask? It's a bunch of interwoven chains. That grass we just talked about .
. . it's not just cows that eat grass. So do deer, mice, birds! Interwoven with the chain that ends
with you, are other chains that might end with deer, or eagles or snakes. Together, all those
chains make a food web. Who knows, it's even possible that you and I, Amber, could be part of the
same giant food web! Now that's something to chew on!
Signed,
Wendell
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