Everything Needs Energy!OBJECTIVE:

You will be able to put the levels of life in order with an example.

You will be able to read a food web properly.ITINERARY:

1. Levels on Board2. Levels Sort (game – quick!)

3. 7 Easy Definitions4. Practice

5. Make your own food web!

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1. Producer

Makes its own food through

sunlight (plants)

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2. Consumer

Eats other organisms for food (animals)

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3. Herbivore

Consumer that eats plants only

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4. Carnivore

Consumer that eats other animals

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5. Omnivore

Consumer that eats plants and

animals

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6. Scavenger

Consumers that eat the bodies

of already-been-killed animals

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7. Decomposer

Breaks down remains of dead

organisms

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8. Food Chain

A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food

Each link in this chain is food for the next link. A food chain always starts with plant life and ends with an animal.

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9. Food Web A graphic that

shows the organisms that

eat and get eaten in an

environment

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10. Energy

Pyramid

A graphic that shows the loss of energy at

every level in an environment

More energy

Less energy

Who is eating Whom?

Draw an arrow from the food to the consumer.

A FOOD WEB WORKS THE SAME WAY!

• The arrows go from the food to the animal eating it.

What does this bird eat? (trace the

arrows back from the bird –

four thinga)

What does this fox

eat? (trace the

arrows back from the bird –

four thinga)

What does this bug eat?

Who eats

these bugs?

What does the

bunny eat?

Who eats the

butter-fly?

What does the

deer eat?

The hawk has three arrows leading towards it. This mean it eats 3 things: snake, shrew and rabbit.

The mouse is the only herbivore (a consumer that eats only plants) listed. The mouse is eating the berry bush.

What is the found-ation of this food web?