The meadow food web

In the picture

1. 1Grass is a producer: it makes its own food from sunlight, and both the rabbit and the grasshopper eat it.
2. 2The grasshopper eats grass, then the frog eats the grasshopper, and the hawk eats the frog.
3. 3The fox and the hawk both eat the rabbit, so two chains cross here.
4. 4The hawk is at the top and gets food from two different chains.

Examples

• In a garden, aphids eat rose leaves, ladybirds eat aphids, and blackbirds eat both ladybirds and earthworms.
• In the sea, tiny plankton feed small fish, and both seals and seabirds eat those fish.

Quiz: The meadow food web (Age 11)

1. 1

   Why do the food chains in a food web link up with each other?

   • Because each animal eats only one kind of food
   • Because many animals eat more than one kind of food
   • Because all the animals live in the same place
2. 2

   In a food web, an arrow points from the grass to the rabbit. What does the arrow show?

   • The grass gets its energy from the rabbit
   • The rabbit lives among the grass
   • The rabbit eats the grass, so energy goes from the grass to the rabbit
3. 3

   What makes grass a producer?

   • It makes its own food using sunlight
   • It is eaten by many different animals
   • It takes all its food from the soil

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