Zoology - Organisms and Populations Question with Solution | TestHub

The process of transfer of energy from producers through a series of organisms i.e. from primary consumers to secondary consumers to tertiary consumers by process of eating and being eaten constitute a food chain, eg. grassland ecosystem. Food chains can never occur independently in ecosystem but various food chains are inter-connected with each other forming an interlocked system known as food web. In grassland ecosystem food chains may be- (i) Grass $\to$ Rabbit $\to$ Hawk/kite (ii) Grass $\to$ Mouse $\to$ Snake $\to$ Kite/Hawk (iii) Grass $\to$ Grasshopper $\to$ Lizard $\to$ Kite/Hawk So, the food web will include kite.