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Science - Year 7: Biology: *Food Chains and Food Webs

This guide is to support the Year 7 Science program.

What to do...

Learner thinking - Inquiry Questions:

What is a food web?
What is a food chain?

What is the format of a food chain and food web?

What is photosynthesis and why is it important in a food web?
What are producers and consumers?

What are carnivore, omnivores, herbivores and detrivores?

What does 1st (primary) order, 2nd (secondary) Order, 3rd (tertiary) order and top order consumer mean?

Performance Thinking - YOUR ISLAND TASKS:
Write the names of your animals and plants on post-it notes.

Practice forming a food web for your island.

Now create 3 food chains using your food web.

Food chain and food web. [Photograph]. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Retrieved 7 Apr 2017, from: http://quest.eb.com/search/309_1155884/1/309_1155884/cite

Remember to Reference!

Email Library staff for the login information, make sure that you include your name and a clear explanation of what you are asking for: Miss Phillips Mrs Lim Ms Lane. Once you have the login details, follow the link below to the Online Reference Generator and create Harvard-style citations for all of your resources/references.

The Field Journal Rubric

Scootle pins:
what is an ecosystem?: UQYIHD

Arctic food web: NGEBQU