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Ecosystems: Starter What Is An Ecosystem? Can You Think of Any Examples?
Ecosystems: Starter What Is An Ecosystem? Can You Think of Any Examples?
Ecosystems: Starter What Is An Ecosystem? Can You Think of Any Examples?
Food webs
Often several consumer eat the same food. For example in a oak wood, both caterpillars and aphids ( a type of fly) feed on oak leaves So food chains link to form a food web. The complete food web for a wood (or any ecosystem) can be large and complex
Now stick in the sheet you have been given and answer the questions
1. What would suffer if: a) A disease killed all the crickets in the wood? b) All the trees got chopped down? 2. If all the foxes were wiped out: a) What might happen to the number of wood mice? b) What might happen because of a change in (a)?
Pick three different countries in the world that have different biomes. Write down the name of the country and the biomes it is part of.
Task
Look at the sheet you have been given. Answer questions 1.a), b) and c) Now answer question 2