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Feeding Relationships. A food chain shows a simple feeding relationship. Sun → All food chains start with the sun. Feeding Relationships. A food chain shows a simple feeding relationship. Sun → grass →. Feeding Relationships. A food chain shows a simple feeding relationship.
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Feeding Relationships • A food chain shows a simple feeding relationship. Sun → • All food chains start with the sun
Feeding Relationships • A food chain shows a simple feeding relationship. Sun → grass →
Feeding Relationships • A food chain shows a simple feeding relationship. Sun → grass → rabbit →
Feeding Relationships • A food chain shows a simple feeding relationship. Sun → grass → rabbit → fox
carbon dioxide from the air energy from sunlight (or light) water from the roots food transported to the rest of the plant
Photosynthesis carbon dioxide from the air energy from sunlight (or light) water from the roots food transported to the rest of the plant
Because plants produce their own food, they are called ‘Producers’
The energy is then passed on to animals when they eat the plant.
Because these animalsare thefirst to takethe food energyfrom the plants, They are called primaryconsumers
Some of these primary consumers havepredators. Other animals that feed on them
Animals that eat primary consumers are called secondary consumers
So far this is a straightforward food chain • Sun → aphid → ladybird But in reality it is more complicated than that
What will eat the frog? What do you think the frog eats?
What would happen if a disease killed off many of the hawks?
There will be nothing to eat the snakes, so their numbers will increase.
No frogs. More crickets
Now the crickets don’t have enough food so their numbers go down
..and so on. Numbers of each species have an effect on the numbers of the other species in the web.
Use the food web worksheet to predict what might happen in the following situations: • A) There is very little rain and much of the Marsh Grass and Cattail die off. • B) Humans nearby bring cats into the area. • C) The frogs eats some poisoned slugs from a garden
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