Agusan Jaysan Anon LS2
Agusan Jaysan Anon LS2
Agusan Jaysan Anon LS2
Elementary
Elementary
Learning Strand 2
Scientific and Critical Thinking
FOOD CHAIN AND FOOD WEB:
Skills
HOW DO THEY WORK?
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Elementary
Learning Strand 2
SCIENTIFIC AND CRITICAL
THINKING SKILLS (SCIENCE)
FOOD CHAIN AND FOOD WEB:
HOW DO THEY WORK?
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Have Learned lessons covered in every module.
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Explore More
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Glossary
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Contents
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What Is This Module About?
Describing the flow of energy within an ecosystem essentially
answers this question “Why one must eat?” and that’s to get
energy. Food chains and webs describe the transfer of energy within
an ecosystem, from one organism to another. In other words, they
show who eats whom. They are important conceptual tools in
illustrating the feeding relationships among species within a
community, revealing species interactions and community
structure, and understanding the dynamics of energy transfer in an
ecosystem.
ACTIVITY
Directions: Read the questions carefully and comprehensively. Select the
letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on separate
sheet
of paper.
1. Which show a path of food energy?
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B. fish plant bear tiger
A. Nutrients
B. Protection
C. Shade
D. Shelter
3. What will happen to the remaining life in the lake if the sun was
completely blocked that it could no longer provided energy to the plants
in
a lake?
A. Only the plants would die.
A. Consumers
B. Decomposers
C. Producers
D. Secondary Consumer
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For items 6-10, refer to the food web below.
Source: https://www.edrawmax.com/article/a-guide-to-understand-food-web-with-diagram.html
A. Consumers
B. Decomposers
C. Producers
D. Secondary Consumer
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A. goat, mouse, rabbit
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
9. What do you call the organisms that eat only plants like mouse, rabbit,
and
goat?
A. Carnivores
B. Herbivores
C. Omnivores
D. Producers
10. What will happen to the rabbit if the jackal were taken out of the food
web?
A. The number of owls would increase.
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Lesso FOOD CHAIN
n 1 AND FOOD WEB
What Will You Learn from This Module?
Let’s Do This
Directions: Recite the song “Food Chain Song” and answer the questions
that follow.
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I got some news, It’s not a game,
We’re all just links, In the food chain!
Where do we get, Our Energy,
By eating food we catch and see…
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gv9yuN2Ch8
Questions
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1. What is the song all about?
2. What does it mean by the word producer?
3. How do plants make their food?
4. Who eats the plant? the rabbit? the fox?
5. What do you think will happen to the bear if it doesn’t have any
more animals to eat?
Food Chain
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Food chain shows the relationships between producers, consumers,
and decomposers, showing who eats whom with arrows. The arrows show
the movement of energy through the food chain. For example, in the food
chain shown above the plant makes its own food from the energy given by
the sun. By eating the plant, the grasshoper gets its energy and by
continuing the chain the energy is pass to the frog, the snake, and the
eagle, Finally, the bacteria eats the eagle after it dies. The bacteria also
return nutrients back to the environment for use by the plants. (United
States Environmental Protection Agency, n.d)
Source: https://www.edrawmax.com/article/a-guide-to-understand-food-web-with-diagram.html
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only on one type of food. Most of the time, carnivores eat other carnivores,
as well as herbivores. Some may even eat both animals and plants. If we
list every species that is present in an ecosystem and then draw arrows
connecting them to each of their food sources, we would see many
interlocking arrows that would give the appearance of a spider web. All of
the interconnected and overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up
a food web.
The rabbit eats carrot. The fox eats the rabbit. When the fox dies, it is
decomposed by a bacteria.
a.
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Lesso
n
TROPHIC LEVEL
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What Will You Learn from This
Module?
At the end of the lesson, you will be able to describe the transfer of
energy through the trophic levels (LS2SC-AS-PSBBL/LE/AE-19.32). The
concept of a trophic level is intended to simplify and explain the dynamic
interactions between organisms throughout a food chain. Understanding
these interactions can lead to useful applications for sustainability,
ecosystem function, and human health.
Let’s Do This
Directions: Read the poem “Why Can’t I Be on the Top” and answer the
questions that follow.
Questions:
Where It Gets
Trophic Level Example
Food
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grass getting
energy from the
1st trophic level:
makes its own food sun and nutrients
Producer
from the soil
2nd Trophic Level: Consumes
mice eating rice
Primary Consumer producers or plants
rd
3 Trophic Level:
consumes primary snakes eating
Secondary
consumers mice
Consumer
Consumes
4th Trophic Level: hawks eating
secondary
Tertiary Consumer snakes
consumers
Many consumers feed at more than one trophic level. Humans, for
example, are primary consumers when they eat plants such as vegetables.
They are secondary consumers when they eat cows. They are tertiary
consumers when they eat salmon.
Source: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/trophic-level-diagram/
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What happens to the other 90 percent of energy? It is used for
metabolic processes or given off to the environment as heat. This
loss of energy explains why there are rarely more than four trophic
levels in a food chain or web. Sometimes there may be a fifth trophic
level, but usually it does not have enough energy left to support any
additional levels. Ecological pyramids can demonstrate the decrease
in energy, biomass, or numbers within an ecosystem. With less
energy at higher trophic levels, there are usually fewer organisms as
well. Organisms tend to be larger in size at higher trophic levels, but
their smaller numbers result in less biomass. Biomass is the total
mass of organisms at a trophic level (CK-12 Foundation. (n.d.).
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Source: https://shorturl.at/luHUW
Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the correct
answer on a separate sheet of paper.
2. Which of the following trophic levels contains species that are top
predators?
A. Primary Consumers
B. Primary Producers
C. Secondary Consumers
D. Tertiary Consumers
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passed from one trophic level to the next along the food chain.
A. Energy chain
B. Food cycle
C. Trophic pyramid
D. Water cycle
The different feeding positions in a food chain or web are called trophic
levels. If there are no producers (such as a plant), you cannot see any
primary consumers in trophic level. That is why trophic levels are important.
They show availability of food/energy in a defined ecosystem, complexity of
"who eats what", dependency of anyone to others, etc. Like economics,
supply and demand must be balanced. Otherwise, economic crises might be
seen. In ecology, if there are producers in a defined area, there are
consumers (as well as decomposers). Even in low biodiversity areas,
creatures depend on each other.
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Generally, there are no more than four trophic levels because energy and
biomass decrease from lower to higher levels.
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Activity A
Directions: Look at this food web. Then answer the questions.
Source: https://www.crooksville.k12.oh.us/
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c. Make a food chain from this food web with four trophic levels.
_____________________________________________________________________
f. Explain what could happen to the community if all the frogs suddenly
died. _____________________________________________________________________
e. How are food webs different to food chains? Explain why food webs are
more useful.
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Activity B
Directions: Label the different trophic level of the illustration below. Then,
write the available energy that pass at each level.
Source: https://shorturl.at/sHM89
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What Have You Learned?
Activity A
Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on
a separate sheet of paper.
2. ___________ are organisms which do not create their own food and
must
eat either plants or animals.
A. Autotrophs
B. Consumer
C. Decomposer
D. Producer
4. ______________ are animals that eat both plants and other animals.
A. Carnivores
B. Herbivores
C. Omnivores
D. Producers
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C. Food Web
D. Trophic Level
Activity B
Directions: Identify whether the following definition is a food chain, food
web, or trophic level.
________1. It is an interconnected food chain.
________2. It shows a simple relationship between producers and
consumers.
________3. It shows the progression of food energy from one level to
another.
________4. It displays overlapping relationships of each organism in an
ecosystem.
________5. It indicates how much energy producers have compared to
the
consumers
Activity C
Directions: Write True if the statement is correct and False if not.
Activity D
Directions: Create a trophic pyramid from the given food web below.
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Lesson 1
Pretest
1. C
2. A
3. C
4. D
5. B
Lesson 2
6. C
7. A
Let’s Do This
8. D
1. He wanted to be on top.
9. B
2. Because he is tired of being
10. B
crushed and stomped
Source: https://shorturl.at/wHI78 3. tiger
Let’s Do This
4. because the tiger is being
1. about the process of the food
feared by other animals
chain
5. answers may vary
2. organism that creates their own
6. answers may vary
food
Answer Key
3. through photosynthesis
4. rabbit, fox, bear
Let’s Try This
Producer: grass
5. the bear will die
Primary Consumers: mouse,
grasshopper, rabbit
Let’s Try This
Secondary Consumers: fox, frog,
Carrot rabbit fox bacteria
bird, owl
Tertiary Consumers: owl, snake,
Let’s See What Have You
hawk
Learned
a. producer
Let’s See What Have You
b. rat
Learned
c. the number of rats will decrease
1. A
2. D
3. C
4. D
5. B
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Explore More
Activity A
a. Land plants, tiny water plants
b. Slug, frog, fox
c. (answers may vary)
d. Water fleas, diving beetle
e. Heron, perch
f. The diving beetle and slug will
increase in numbers
Activity B
answers may vary
B. 1. food web
2. food chain
3. trophic level
4. food web
5. trophic level
C. 1. true
2. false
3.true
4. true
5. true
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Glossary
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Herbivores animals that only eats plants
References
Online Sources
Food chain and food web quiz questions and answers (no date) ProProfs. Available at:
https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=food-chainswebs-quiz (Accessed:
22 January 2024).
Food+Chain images – browse 46,342 stock photos, vectors, and video (no date) Adobe Stock.
Available at: https://stock.adobe.com/ph/search/images?k=food
%2Bchain&asset_id=461044721 (Accessed: 19 January 2024).
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Food Web Diagram Template (no date) edraw. Available at:
https://www.edrawsoft.com/template-food-web-diagram.html (Accessed: 16 January
2024).
Gillespie, Claire. “Why Do Plants Need the Sun?” Sciencing, March 2, 2019.
https://sciencing.com/why-do-plants-need-sun-4572051.html.
(No date a) Food chains and food webs - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Available at:
https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/foodchainsandfoodwebs.pdf
(Accessed: 07 January 2024).
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