Food webs resources

Students use a diagram that shows a food web to answer five questions about the information within the food web.

Task: Students answer questions about a soil food web. Assessment focus: reading a food web, systems thinking.

Task: Students answer questions about a Southern Ocean food web. Assessment focus: interpreting food webs.

Students are provided with a food web based on organisms of the rocky shore and sea. Students use this to answer questions about food chains in the food web.

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

Task: Explain how a change in the cockle population has affected one or more organisms in a food web in the short and long term. Assessment focus: Sorting observations and inferences; reading food chains and; using a food web diagram to predict impact of change.

Task: Use a Venn diagram to interpret a food web based on the vegetable garden. Assessment focus: using diagrams to identify relationships between organisms; using systems thinking to describe these relationships.

Task: Students answer questions about feeding relationships in a rocky shore ecosystem. Assessment focus: interpreting a food web.