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Ecosystems - AQAFreshwater pond food chain and food web

A variety of ecosystems are spread across the world, each with distinctive interacting characteristics and components. They range from small (eg a freshwater pond) to global (eg the desert biome).

Part of GeographyThe living world

Freshwater pond food chain and food web

The freshwater pond is finely balanced because of the and the .

The food chain

A food chain shows how each living thing gets food. In a food chain, energy and nutrients are passed from one to the next. The provides the basic source of food which other organisms, the , then feed on.

The food chain from bottom to top: Leaves and algae, Caddis, Fish, Kingfisher.

The food web

This includes all of the connections between producers and consumers in an ecosystem. The food web shows how interconnected all of the different organisms are.

Bottom layer: detritus, algae. Layer 2: midge larva, blackfly, mayfly, aquatic worms. Layer 3: great diving beetle, stonefly, caddis, dragonfly. Layer 4: fish. Top layer: heron, kingfisher.