Backyard Food Chain
Plants insects mammals and other creatures are linked through backyard food chains and as readers will see these food chains come together to form a large backyard food web.
Backyard food chain. Food web an ecosystem heavily relies on a food web. See resource center for examples a. For example in this food web of the area we were studying the coyote eats the deer.
For this particular food chain the grass is the producer. Every backyard is its own habitat for many different living things. Everything ultimately derives its energy from the sun and most food chains follow the pattern herbivore carnivore maybe another carnivore or two apex predator but there is an almost endless diversity within that pattern and even a few chains that break it.
The above is a simple food chain where a barn owl is at the top. A great way to introduce kids to this discipline is to help them understand the backyard food web. Producers plants are known as producers.
Like all plants grass is a primary producer in the food chain. Readers learn how these living things are connected as they pass energy to one another. Land based food chains represent the most familiar forms of nature to humans.
Your backyard is a busy place. Include arrows to show the flow of energy. Consumers animals are consumers because they can t create their.
Let s break it down. Each animal is a link in a food chain. It makes more food energy than it needs.
Grass uses sunlight water and carbon dioxide to make its own food. A short science lesson. Food chains on land.
It also eats the red cardinal. Using a paint program or microsoft powerpoint create a food chain web that contains all of the species found in your data. Create food chain 1.
The concept of a food web was first introduced in charles elton s 1927 book animal ecology he called food webs food cycles. Hummingbirds provide great entertainment in the backyard food chain often becoming the flying bullies of the garden as they chase each other the bumblebees skippers and even dragonflies off the flowers over which they claim ownership. If an ecosystem didn t have a food web then the energy wouldn t flow smoothly from one animal to the next.
A mouse comes to eat the grass seed. Include upon the highlighted words in the overview above. Some of the food energy is stored in the plant as grass seed.
