AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
(B) Food web
When branching food chains interconnect instead of forming a straight line, the resulting network is called a food web.
The textbook (Chapter 13) explicitly states: "instead of a straight line food chain, the relationship can be shown as a series of branching lines called a food web." Trophic pyramid refers to energy/number levels; "Energy chain" and "Decomposition chain" are not defined terms in the syllabus.