Science Ecosystems & Habitats Representational 8–9 yrs

Reading Food Web Diagrams

阅读食物网图表

Description

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

Mastery Evidence

✓ 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

Assessment Prompt

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?