Struggling to Remember

grass  grasshopper  rat  snake  eagle

1. What is the primary consumer in food chain above? Grasshopper

2. What is the producer in the food chain above? Grass

3. What term would you label the rat in the food chain above? Secondary Consumer

4. What is the apex predator in the food chain above? Eagle

5. Where do producers get their “food” from? The Sun

Ecosystems
Monday 21st November 2022
 Tertiary
Consumers

Secondary
Consumers

Primary
Consumers

Producers

Food Web
 What would happen if we removed voles?

All organisms in a food web

depend upon each other. This
is known as
interdependence.

Organisms depend on each other for

survival
What actions could cause disruption to food webs?
Tree  Caterpillars  Sparrow  Cat

How many
caterpillars
does a sparrow
eat?
Tree  Caterpillars  Sparrow 
Cat
1 30 3 1

This is a Pyramid of Number

Is there a way to improve the pyramid of numbers?

1 tree 30 caterpillars

Which is bigger?
We can use biomass! Dried mass of animals/plants

Mass of a man = 70 kg Biomass of a man = 28 kg

Tree  Caterpillars  Sparrow 
Cat
100 kg 50 kg 10 kg 5 kg

This is a Pyramid of Biomass

Where does the biomass go?

Carbon Dioxide Faeces

Pointing Question?

Who is your favourite science teacher?

→ Mr Harrison
↑ Mr Peacock
← Dr Kauser
Question 1

Which of the following is the definition of a

carnivore?

→ Animal that eats other animals

↑ Animal that only eats plants
← Animal that eats other animals and plants
Question 2
Which of the following is the definition of a consumer?

→ Animals that hunt other animals but have no other

animals hunting them
↑ A living thing that eats another living thing
← Animal that only eats plants
Question 3
In the following food chain, what is the apex predator?

Lettuce  Caterpillar  Blue Tit  Sparrowhawk

→ Lettuce
↑ Blue Tit
← Sparrowhawk
Question 4
In the following food chain, what is the secondary consumer?

Seaweed  Mussel  Starfish  Seagull

→ Mussel
↑ Starfish
← Seagull
Question 5
In this food web, what animal is a primary consumer?

→ Lion
↑ Wild Cat
← Rabbit
Question 6
In this food web, how many producers are there?

→2
↑3
←4
Question 7
What term defines the dependence of all animals in a
food web on each other?

→ Biodiversity
↑ Interdependence
← Biomass
Question 8
If snakes were removed from this food web, what
would happen to the eagle population

→ Increase
↑ Stay the same
← Decrease
Question 9
Which of the following is not a cause of disruption to
food webs?

→ Recycling
↑ Deforestation
← Hunting/Poaching
Question 10
What does the bottom layer on a pyramid of number
represent?

→ Primary consumer
↑ Producer
← Apex predator