Aim: How are food chains & food webs different? DO NOW: Take a good look at this food web and write down two feeding relationships from interpreting it.
Food Chain Shows which organisms are eaten by other organisms The arrow means “ eaten by” Starts with a producer Continues with consumers (primary, secondary, tertiary etc.) Decomposers function at every level
Food Chain Image
Trophic Level Each step of a food chain 1st trophic level will be the producers present in the chain
Food Web A web of many food chains interconnected together Energy flows from producers to consumers Shows how some organisms eat only 1 food Shows how some organisms have more than 1 food choice Shows how changes in one population of organisms affects other organisms
Food Web Visual
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Group Work Answering video questions
Individual Work Work on regents questions handout & turn in
Homework Work on castle learning questions