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Meadow Food Web

Green plants use sunlight to make their own food. That food passes to animals that eat plants, then to animals that eat other animals, while dead matter is recycled into soil.

In the picture

  1. Clover and grass leaves in sunlight
  2. A caterpillar eating a leaf
  3. A rabbit nibbling clover
  4. A robin with a caterpillar in its beak
  5. Fallen leaves, a mushroom, an earthworm and a woodlouse among roots

Examples

  • In a garden, a caterpillar eats a cabbage leaf, a bird eats the caterpillar, and dead leaves rot into soil.
  • In a pond, tadpoles eat algae, a fish eats tadpoles, and dead water plants settle into mud.

Quiz: Meadow Food Web (Age 12)

  1. What do green plants use to make their own food?

    • Dead animals
    • Sunlight
    • Soil
  2. In the food web, what happens to food after it passes to animals that eat plants?

    • It disappears completely.
    • It passes to animals that eat other animals.
    • It returns to plants as sunlight.
  3. What happens to dead matter in this food web?

    • It is broken down and returns to the soil.
    • It is turned into sunlight by green plants.
    • It stays exactly the same forever.

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Nature, Age 12