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Food chains
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A food chain shows where the energy goes in a food chain (in other words, what gets eaten by what):
Cabbage
Rabbit
Stoat
Fox
Plants are called producers they produce the energy for the rest of the food chain through photosynthesis.
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Stems
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1) Fertilisers
Provide nutrients
2) Herbicides
Kill weeds
3) Pesticides
Kill pests
Disrupt food chains
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Insecticides can wash into a stream or lake where they are taken up by microscopic water plants. Consider the food chain:
Small plants
Marine insects
Fish
Kingfisher
Although the level of insecticides in the plants is small, it will build up through the food chain due to the number of organisms in each stage.