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Environment and Feeding Relationships
20/02/2018 Environment and Feeding Relationships
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Adaptation 20/02/2018 Organisms are ADAPTED to the habitat they live in. In other words, they have special features that help them to survive where they live. Some examples:
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Adapting to seasonal changes
20/02/2018 As well as being adapted to its environment, an animal will also adapt to seasonal changes. Some examples… 1) Hibernation – ______ through the winter 2) Migration – moving to a warmer ________ 3) _______ – growing thicker fur to keep out the cold 4) Shedding leaves – this reduces ____ loss 5) Food storing – to cope with a shortage in ______ Words – water, insulation, winter, sleeping, climate
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Predators and Prey 20/02/2018 A PREDATOR is an animal that hunts and eats another animal The PREY is the animal it eats, for example… Yum Prey Predator Features of predators Features of prey
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Food chains 20/02/2018 A food chain shows where the energy goes in a food chain (in other words, “what gets eaten by what”): Rabbit Cabbage Fox Stoat The arrows indicate where the energy is going Plants convert the sun’s energy into food
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Food webs contain many interlinking food chains…
20/02/2018 Food webs contain many interlinking food chains…
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Breaking the links 20/02/2018 Q. What would happen if an animal or organism was “taken out”? e.g take out the crab: What would happen to the population of flat winkles? They would probably ______ because… What would happen to the population of herring gulls? They would probably ______ because …
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Consider one food chain…
20/02/2018 Top carnivore Secondary consumer Primary consumer Producer
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Match these words… Tertiary consumer Herbivore Top carnivore Producer
20/02/2018 Tertiary consumer Herbivore Top carnivore Producer Secondary Consumer Omnivore Carnivore Primary Usually plants. Starts off a food chain Animals that only eat plants An animal that eats producers An animal that eats primary consumers An animal that eats secondary consumers A general word for “an eater” Eats only animals Not eaten by anything else Eats both animals and plants
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