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Food Webs

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COMBINED RATING

4.2 Stars

TEACHERS (128)

4.4

STUDENTS (79506)

3.9

LENGTH

14 Minutes

GRADES

CAPABILITIES

iPad Support

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

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Description

Vee and PC-101 are aliens from planet Z, and they are wandering from planet to planet to learn about their habitats! Take a journey with Vee and PC-101 to learn about the food webs of Earth's organisms!

Vocabulary Words

food web

energy

food energy

prey

predator

ecosystem

organism

niche

photosynthesis

invertebrate

vertebrate

producers

consumers

scavengers

decomposer

fungi

population

savannah

organism

mammal

herbivores

carnivores

,marine

carrion

Cephalopods

organic

crustacean

equines

interdependency

phytoplankton

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Food Webs. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.

Main Concepts

An ecosystem includes all of the living organisms and nonliving components in a shared environment.

All organisms obtain living and nonliving resources from their environment.

Examples of living resources are plants and animals.

Examples of nonliving resources are sunlight, air, water, temperature, and soil.

Organisms of the same species that live in the same place together are a population.

A community is all of the populations that live together in the same space.

Interdependency means that every organism depends on other organisms to survive.

The energy in an animal’s food was once energy from the Sun that was captured by plants.

Plants obtain the material for growth mostly from air and water.

Photosynthesis is a chemical process that forms plant matter from the energy in sunlight as well as air and water.

A niche is the role and needs of an organism in its community.

Zooplankton are tiny, animal-like organisms that float freely in water.

Dry-land ecosystems include deserts, grasslands, rainforests, and forests.

Consumers are animals that eat other organisms to obtain energy.

A producer is an organism that can produce its own food to obtain energy.

Decomposers are organisms that break down dead plant and animal remains.

Some examples of decomposers are fungi and bacteria.

A food web shows how matter and energy move in an ecosystem.

A predator is an animal that hunts other animals for food.

A prey is an animal that can be hunted by another animal for food.

Photosynthesis occurs when plants absorb energy from sunlight through their leaves.

Animals need energy to perform their life processes.

No two types of organisms occupy the same niche in a community.

An aquatic ecosystem includes bodies of fresh water or salt water.

Decomposition eventually recycles materials back to Earth’s soil for plants to use.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

How does an animal get energy? How are all animals connected? Are animals in the ocean connected to animals in the desert? Can a snake eat anything that it wants?

After the Game

What is something that all producers need? How are the different ecosystems all similar? Grass is eaten by a grasshopper, and the grasshopper is eaten by a bird - what is the producer? What are the consumers? What is a decomposer?