What is the difference between food chain and food web?

Question

What is the difference between food chain and food web?

Answer 1

The food chain is usually mentioned when discussing a hierarchy of food resources, while the food web tends to encompass horizontal, or species specific, food interactions.

Answer 2

They're basically the same thing as you'll hear people saying "Oh, the food chain or food web".

But a food web is more complex and usually the graph is more complicated, with more branches sticking out than the food chain.

Food chain/web describe the feeding relationships between species within an ecosystem.