Consider the following statements and select the correct option. Statement 1: Food chains in an ecosystem are interlinked to form a food web. Statement 2: Food webs show the interdependence of organisms.
Both statements are true
Statement 1 is true: in a real ecosystem an organism rarely eats only one kind of food, so the same species appears in several food chains and those chains cross and interlink to form a food web.
Statement 2 is also true: because the web links producers, herbivores and the various carnivores through many feeding paths, it displays how each organism depends on others for energy, and how a change in one population affects the rest.
Hence, the answer is Both statements are true.
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