   Soil with plant and remains Earth worm Sparrow Sparrow hawk Producer predator consumer Top predator Food chains LO: draw food chains/webs and explain how energy is lost at each level of a food chain TASK: can you re arrange this information into a food chain starting with a producer

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Producers Green plants make their own food using carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight. Light energy is converted to chemical energy in the process.

Consumers obtain their energy and nutrients from other organisms on which they feed. plants primary consumer secondary consumer tertiary consumer Each stage in a food chain is called a trophic level.

->Passes out of body as faeces and other excretory products How Is This Energy Lost? ->Lost as heat during respiration Total energy level decreases progressively along the food chain. Times Media CD

Write down the longest food chain you can see in this food web

1. Here are three food chains: Agrass rabbit fox Bwheat field mouse fox Cwheat field mouse grass snake 1Sketch a pyramid of numbers for food chain A. 2Use all three food chains to draw a food web. 3Name one producer in the food web. 4Name a primary consumer. 5Name a secondary consumer. aIf the field mice died, what would happen to the number of grass snakes? bWhy would this happen? cIf the field mice died, what might happen to the number of rabbits? dWhy might this happen?

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8D A few words to check Can you match each word to its definition? Carnivores Consumers Producers Herbivores Omnivores Animals that eat plants and animals. Organisms that build food using energy from sunlight. Animals that only eat plants. Organisms that cannot make food by photosynthesis. Animals that only eat animals. Animals that only eat animals. Organisms that cannot make food by photosynthesis. Organisms that build food using energy from sunlight. Animals that only eat plants. Animals that eat plants and animals. grassrabbit rabbitgrass Write down the correct food chain Food chains