Ecosystems - Food Chains & Food Webs (KS3)

The organisms in a food chain are dependent on each other

How would you list this food chain?

Another could be "grass - grasshopper - frog - snake - hawk" (you MIGHT add "fungi" to be complete).

Food Webs show all the Food Chains together within a specific ecosystem.

Q1. Please name me a Producer from this Food Web

Q2. Which Consumers feed on Fruit Flies?

Q3. Please give me one complete food chain.

Q4. What could be the impact if lots of Frogs died because of some illness?

We can organise the organisms into Trophic Levels.

The word Trophic is to do with food, eating, or nutrition.

The organism on the level above EATS the organism on the level below.

Level 1 is always a PRODUCER - an organism that gets its energy from the Sun via photosynthesis.

All the other levels are CONSUMERS

Not all the energy flows up to the next level because each CONSUMER has to "waste" energy to find a meal