Reading Food Web Diagrams
Read and interpret food web diagrams — identify producers, primary and secondary consumers, and decomposers; trace energy flow along food chains within the web; predict the effect of removing or adding a species
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If your child is shown a diagram with arrows connecting plants, insects, frogs, and hawks, can they trace which animals eat which and explain what would happen if the frogs disappeared?
Read and interpret food web diagrams — identify producers, primary and secondary consumers, and decomposers; trace energy flow along food chains within the web; predict the effect of removing or adding a species
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- Identify the producer, herbivore, and carnivore in a food web from a diagram
- Trace two food chains through the same food web and identify shared species
- Predict what would happen to fox numbers if rabbits were removed from a food web diagram
“If your child is shown a diagram with arrows connecting plants, insects, frogs, and hawks, can they trace which animals eat which and explain what would happen if the frogs disappeared?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Representational
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Ecosystems & Habitats
- Age range
- Ages 8–9