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    Food Chains and Webs

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    1) The document discusses food chains and food webs. It provides examples of food chains and asks questions to test understanding of producers, consumers, predators, and how populations within the chain or web affect one another. 2) Key terms defined include decomposer, herbivore, and behavioral adaptation. Students are asked to identify consumers, predators, and organisms that can be both within a sample food web. 3) The effects of increasing or decreasing different populations within the web are explored, such as what would happen if the snake or mice populations changed.

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    Food Chains and Webs

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    1) The document discusses food chains and food webs. It provides examples of food chains and asks questions to test understanding of producers, consumers, predators, and how populations within the chain or web affect one another. 2) Key terms defined include decomposer, herbivore, and behavioral adaptation. Students are asked to identify consumers, predators, and organisms that can be both within a sample food web. 3) The effects of increasing or decreasing different populations within the web are explored, such as what would happen if the snake or mice populations changed.

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    1) The document discusses food chains and food webs. It provides examples of food chains and asks questions to test understanding of producers, consumers, predators, and how populations within the chain or web affect one another. 2) Key terms defined include decomposer, herbivore, and behavioral adaptation. Students are asked to identify consumers, predators, and organisms that can be both within a sample food web. 3) The effects of increasing or decreasing different populations within the web are explored, such as what would happen if the snake or mice populations changed.

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    Susan Chong
    1) The document discusses food chains and food webs. It provides examples of food chains and asks questions to test understanding of producers, consumers, predators, and how populations within the chain or web affect one another. 2) Key terms defined include decomposer, herbivore, and behavioral adaptation. Students are asked to identify consumers, predators, and organisms that can be both within a sample food web. 3) The effects of increasing or decreasing different populations within the web are explored, such as what would happen if the snake or mice populations changed.

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    Topic: Food Chains and Food Web

    Q.1Choose the best answer.

    1. Which food chain correctly describes the flow of energy in an ecosystem?

    a) Grass-->cow-->human
    b) Caterpillar-->leaf-->human.
    c) Cow-->grass-->human
    d) Leaf-->bird-->caterpillar

    2. Look at the following food chain and identify the secondary consumer.

    Water weeds pond snail great diving beetle heron

    a) Heron
    b) Pond Snail
    c) Great diving beetle
    d) Water weeds

    3. Match Column A with Column B and write the answer in Column C.

    Column A Column B Column C


    1. food web A. micro-organism which breaks down dead and
    waste matter into simpler substances
    2. decomposers B. contamination of an environment especially by
    waste
    3. behavioral C. a network of interconnected food chains
    adaptation
    4. pollution D. animals feeding on plants
    5. herbivore E. hibernation

    • Look at the food web and answer the following questions.

    Identify the:
    I. Consumers:
    II. Predators:
    • What would happen to the population of snake if all the mice are killed?
    • Identify an organismin the given food web which is both a predator and a prey.

    Q.4a A community in which barn owls and snakes consume only mice is being observed. If
    the number of snakes increases, what is most likely to happen?

    b) Why producers are always found at the beginning of a food chain?

    Q.5a Look at the food web and answer the following questions.

    Complete the following sentences using the words increase or decrease to describe what
    will happen to the food web.

    i. If the population of sparrows decreases then the population of caterpillars will:


    .

    ii. If mice increase in number, then the number of snakes will:

    Q.6 Answer the riddle.


    1. I am a fungus. I break down dead plants and animals. What am I?
    2. I am a tree. I make my own food. What am I?
    3. I am a living thing that cannot make food. What am I?
    4. I am a bear. I eat berries and fish. What am I?

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