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Virtual Experiment Science and Concept Map
Virtual Experiment Science and Concept Map
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Food chains
Introduction
You can see how the feeding relationships between animals, plants
and humans work.
For example
These links between animals and plants are called food chains.
Nearly all food chains start with a green plant.
If one part of a food chain alters, the whole food chain is affected. For
example, if a disease suddenly wiped out caterpillars, it would affect owls,
eagles and many other animals.
Most animals and plants are part of more than one food chain shown in Figure
1.
Figure 1
Plants are called producers because they make their own food. They are at
the start of a food chain.
Animals are called consumers because they eat other plants and animals, it is
shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2
Background information:
All animals need food and water to survive. When the food or water is
destroyed or polluted it will cause a reaction to occur in the food chain.
For example: If the Ospreys were to eat eels that are sick because of polluted
water, the birds would eat the poison too by eating the sick eel. If the ospreys
eat too many sick eels the ospreys would become weak and would cause the
osprey to be in danger of becoming extinct or force the osprey to leave the
area to find other prey.
The animals that predators eat are called prey. It is shown in Figure 3
Figure 3
Concept map
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