Put On Your Thinking Caps

Answer these questions:

Q1. What will happen if there are too many snakes in a rainforest?
Q2. What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Q3. Why is there more herbivores than carnivores?

Assignment

Watch the youtube video "Song on Food Chain" and give your comments on what you have learnt about food chains and food webs from the video.

Fun Game

Go to this website to play a game and learn about how organisms affects one another in a food chain

http://puzzling.caret.cam.ac.uk/game.php?game=foodchain

Class Activity

You are required to create as many food chains as possible with this list of organisms:

• Flower
• Caterpillar
• Man
• Frog
• Snake
• Owl
• Sheep
• Wolf
• Grass
• Grasshopper
• Mynah
• Rabbit
• Fox
• Lion
• Mouse
• Bird
• Praying Mantis
• Cow
• Tiger
• Horse

Online Quizzes

Check out how much you know about food chains!

Fast Facts before doing the quizzes:

• A producer makes food for itself and others to feed off it. A producer is the first link in a food chain. It is often a green plant.
• A consumer is an organism that eats something.Animals are consumers.Animals have to eat other animals or producers to survive.
• A predator is an animal that eats another animal.
• A prey is an animal that is eaten by a predator.

1.http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/schools/ks2bitesize/science/quizengine?quiz=s07_foodchains_quiz&templateStyle=science_lt

2.http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/foodpuzzlechain.html

Our Learning Journey

Visit these websites to learn more about Food Chains and Food Webs:

Fun Revision Activities
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=foodchains

Food Chains and Food Webs
http://www.arcytech.org/java/population/facts_foodchain.html

Interesting Facts about Food Chains
http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

The Food Chain
http://planetpals.com/foodchain.html