Breaking the Food Chain

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Breaking the Food Chain

• How each part of a food chain is important.
• By Mrs. DeRosa

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The Big Question

• What happens when one part of the food chain is
  removed?

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What is a food chain?

• Energy path
• Ecosystem

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What does the food chain look like?
Consumers
Carnivores
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Energy!

• Necessary to live
• From food
• Plants are special!

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What is the primary food source of energy in food
chains?
PLANTS!
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What happens to energy as it moves through the
food chain?
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What are producers and consumers? And how are
they related to each other?
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• Prey and predators.
• Predators eat prey.

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• They are both in the food chain.
• Consumers eat producers.

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SO What is the effect if one part of a food
chain is removed?

• They will die!

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Lets review our vocabulary!
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Comprehension Questions

• What travels through a food chain?
• What is the first part of a food chain?
• What is necessary for all living things?
• What food does energy start with?
• Does energy get more or less in the food chain?
• What is a producer?
• What is a consumer?

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Works Cited

• www.pack152.net
• www.sheppardsoftware.com
• www.unitedstreaming.com
• http//grapevine.net.au/grunwald/une/KLAs/science
  /photosynthesis.html