1. Environment and Feeding Relationships
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Environment and Feeding Relationships
W Richards
The Weald School

2. Adaptation
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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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6. Adapting to seasonal changes
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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

7. Predators and Prey
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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

8. Food chains
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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

9. Food webs contain many interlinking food chains…
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Food webs contain many interlinking food chains…

10. Breaking the links
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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 …

11. Consider one food chain…
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Top carnivore
Secondary consumer
Primary consumer
Producer

12. Match these words… Tertiary consumer Herbivore Top carnivore Producer
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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