Ecosystem

Food Chain
 Learning Goals
Students can describe the meaning of the food chain.

Students can give an example of a food chain near them.

Students can identify the role of living things in the food chain.

Students can identify examples of symbiosis.

Do you know?

How do we get energy?

Food Chain
Food Chain What is Food
Chain?
the sequence of transfers of matter
and energy in the form of food
from one organism to another
organism
Producers

organisms that can produce their

own food, ex : plants

Consumer
a living creature that eats
organisms from a different
population, ex : rat, snake, eagle

Decomposer
organisms that break
down dead plants or
animals into the
substances that
plants need for
growth, ex : fungi
 Food Chain Diagram
Tertiary
Consumer
Secondary
Consumer
Primary
Consumer
Decomposer
Final
Producer
Consumer
Symbiosis
Symbiosis What is
Symbiosis?
any relationship or interaction
between two dissimilar
organisms

Mutualism
a type of mutually beneficial
relationship between organisms
of different species

Commensalism
a relationship in which one
species benefits while the other
species is not affected
Parasitism
a relationship
between two
species in which
one of them
benefits and the
other species is
harmed
Type of Symbiosis

mutualism

Commensalism

Parasitism
 Let’s Play Game

Let’s play Crossword

 Quiz

1. How do living things in an ecosystem get energy?

2. What is a food chain?
3. What are the roles of living things in the food chain?
4. What is symbiosis?
5. Give some examples of symbiosis going on around you!
 Exercises
1. What is the meaning of the food chain?
2. Look at the picture below!

Determine the roles of the living things above in a food chain!

 Exercises
3. Look at the picture below!

Analyze what would happen if the frog population was extinct!

 Exercises
4. Look at the picture below!

Find out what’s wrong with that food chain!

Thank You