Ecology resources

Using information about 'feeding links' between several different animals and plants students draw a food web to show all these links.

Task: Complete a drawing of things found in a garden, and describe relationships between them. Assessment focus: interdependence in a garden.

Students explain how two armoured reptiles' adaptations protect them from being eaten by predators.

Students answer one question about diet given the type of beak that birds have. Students are also asked about how scientists might investigate information about moa.

Task: Design a plant that meets the criteria for a particular environment. Assessment focus: identifying specific features of a plant and explaining how they help it survive in its environment.