Food Chains & Energy Transfer
Construct and interpret food chains identifying producers, predators, and prey, and understand energy transfer between trophic levels
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“Can your child build a food chain for a woodland and point out which organisms are producers, which are predators, and which are prey?”
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- Activity. Construct and interpret food chains identifying producers, predators, and prey, and understand energy transfer between trophic levels
What to notice. Construct a food chain with at least four organisms, labelling producer, primary consumer, predator • Define producer, predator, and prey with examples • Interpret a given food chain to predict what happens if one organism is removed
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Can your child build a food chain for a woodland and point out which organisms are producers, which are predators, and which are prey?
Construct and interpret food chains identifying producers, predators, and prey, and understand energy transfer between trophic levels
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- Construct a food chain with at least four organisms, labelling producer, primary consumer, predator
- Define producer, predator, and prey with examples
- Interpret a given food chain to predict what happens if one organism is removed
“Can your child build a food chain for a woodland and point out which organisms are producers, which are predators, and which are prey?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Ecosystems & Habitats
- Age range
- Ages 8–9
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