To Use a combination of Food chains in a habitat to produce food webs
To explain energy transfer in food webs and relate this to the abundance of organisms
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PREDATOR OR PREY?
ON SAFARI Copy Learning Objectives To Use a combination of Food chains in a habitat to produce food webs To explain energy transfer in food webs and relate this to the abundance of organisms Note keywords: Practice using them to answer questions
PREDATOR OR PREY? You task is to identify predator and prey animals in the pictures below
FOOD CHAIN (Activity 3) Define the following terms: Herbivore Carnivore Predator Prey Consumer Predator Prey
What is a food Chain?
FOOD CHAIN The food chain shows us what eats what in a community. They show the movement of FOOD ENERGY from one organism to the next.
FOOD CHAIN From the food-web above, name: Two primary consumers One secondary consumer Explain why all food chains begin with green plants If the Owls and Snakes were killed what would happen to numbers of: Mouse If the snakes were killed what would happen to the population of kite?
What is a food Chain? Every living thing needs energy in order to live. Animals get energy from the food they eat, and all living things get energy from food. Plants use sunlight, water and nutrients to get energy (in a process called photosynthesis).
FOOD CHAIN A food chain is the sequence of who eats whom in a biological community (an ecosystem) to obtain nutrition.
HOMEWORK
EARTH Learning Objectives To explain how variation has benefits and limitations for survival of organisms in specific habitats
Habitats What is an habitat? Give examples of habitats
ADAPTATIONS
Savannah Habitat
Arctic Fox lives in ……..
Fennec Fox Lives in …..
SURVIVAL
ENDANGERED Explain why 7 spotted ladybirds are becoming less common Useful video clip for the activity above: http :// www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Coccinella_septempunctata#p0039ryj
COMPETE OR DIE Your task is to model the competition for food between red and grey squirrels.
COMPETE OR DIE Your task is to model the competition for food between red and grey squirrels.