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Environment and Feeding Relationships W Richards The Weald School Adaptation Adapting to seasonal changes Predators and Prey Food chains Breaking the links Consider one food chain… Match these words… Tertiary consumer Herbivore Top carnivore Producer Secondary consumer Consumer Omnivore Carnivore Primary consumer Organisms are ADAPTED to the habitat they live in. In other words, they have special features that help them to survive where they live. Some examples: As well as being adapted to its environment, an animal will also adapt to seasonal changes. Some examples… 1) Hibernation – ______ through the winter 2) Migration – moving to a warmer ________ 3) _______ – growing thicker fur to keep out the cold 4) Shedding leaves – this reduces ____ loss 5) Food storing – to cope with a shortage in ______ Words – water, insulation, winter, sleeping, climate A PREDATOR is an animal that hunts and eats another animal The PREY is the animal it eats, for example… Yum Prey Predator Features of predators Features of prey A food chain shows where the energy goes in a food chain (in other words, “what gets eaten by what”): Cabbage Rabbit Stoat Fox The arrows indicate where the energy is going Plants convert the sun’s energy into food Food webs contain many interlinking food chains… Food webs e.g take out the crab: What would happen to the population of flat winkles? They would probably ______ because… What would happen to the population of herring gulls? They would probably ______ because … Q. What would happen if an animal or organism was “taken out”? Top carnivore Secondary consumer Primary consumer Producer Usually plants. Starts off a food chain Animals that only eat plants An animal that eats producers An animal that eats primary consumers An animal that eats secondary consumers A general word for “an eater” Eats only animals Not eaten by anything else Eats both animals and plants * *