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Meadow Food Web
Age 12 · Animals
In a meadow and wood, plants, plant-eaters and animal-eaters are joined by many feeding links. These links cross and overlap, so energy can pass along more than one path.
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In the picture
- Grass blades: a producer that makes its own food from sunlight.
- Rabbit: a herbivore that eats plants such as grass.
- Caterpillar: a herbivore that eats oak leaves.
- Thrush: a carnivore that eats animals such as caterpillars.
- Fox: a carnivore that eats animals such as rabbits.
Examples
- In a garden, aphids eat rose leaves, ladybirds eat aphids, and birds eat ladybirds.
- In a pond, algae are eaten by tadpoles, tadpoles by fish, and fish by herons.
Key takeaways
- Producers make their own food; herbivores eat producers; carnivores eat other animals.
- A food web is many food chains joined together, so changing one link can affect others.
Quiz: Meadow Food Web (Age 12)
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In a food web, what does a producer do?
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Which animal in the food web is a herbivore?
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If one link in a food web changes, what can happen?
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