Ecological Relationships

Who eats

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3

Know how an animal is suited to where it lives, i.e. fish have fins & gills.

Know the basic difference between vertebrates

& invertebrates.

4

Know that plants & animals can be put into different groups – classified.

Understand how to use a key to identify an organism.

Be able to draw simple food chains and identify producer & consumer.

5

Draw food webs and explain how the organisms rely on each other.

Know that environmental factors affect where organisms can live.

6

Predict how environmental predators can affect population sizes.

Draw pyramids of numbers to represent population in a food chain.

7

Describe how energy flows through a food chain.

Objectives

Today I will learn:

• The important physical factors in the environment of animals and plants

• How plants and animals differ due to their environment (Adaptation)

• How to identify producers primary consumers and predators

• How to sort ‘classify’ animals into groups

Objectives

In today’s lesson I will also learn:

• About the different habitats organisms live in.

• How to describe the environment of different habitats.

• About the special adaptations that

organisms have to help them live in their

habitat.

Key words

• Habitat

• Environment

• Adapted

• Adaptation

• Producer

• Consumer

• Predator

Raw Meat sounds

good

Just

give me

a carrot

Habitats

o What is a habitat?

o The place where an organism lives is

called a habitat.

Different organisms live in different habitats.

Can you name some organisms for each of

the habitats?

Pond

Woodland

Sea

Environment

• The word environment is used to describe what a habitat is like.

.

Adaptations

• Adaptations are features which organisms have that help them survive in their habitat

I would call my

environment

So what lives here??

This place was a bit

too……….

A camels habitat is a desert

Hot, Dry but at least you

don’t get bothered by

people

• Adaptations: They are desert animals and have numerous adaptations for life in an arid habitat.

1. The hump stores fat, which they are able to draw upon for water.

2. They have webbed feet (to prevent sinking in the sand);

3. They can close their nostrils and they have a double row of eyelashes to keep out the sand.

4. They can endure long periods without drinking - up to 17 days.

5. When they do drink, they can take up to 136 litres (30 gallons) at a time. By producing dry faeces and little urine, they can conserve water.

6. Their body temperature can rise 6-8 degree Celsius before sweating.

Apart from the camels this

place is great!! So what if I

don’t have

any leaves!!!

Who lives here???

I do

It’s the right

temperature and no-one but no-one messes with

me

Who eats

who??

So who eats grass?

We do

But who

eats us??

We do……

There is

nothing like a Sunday joint

of human!!!

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Objectives

Today I have learned:

• The important physical factors in the environment of animals and plants

• How plants and animals differ due to their environment (Adaptation)

• How to identify producers primary consumers and predators

• How to sort ‘classify’ animals into groups

Objectives

In today’s lesson I have also learned:

• About the different habitats organisms live in.

• How to describe the environment of different habitats.

• About the special adaptations that

organisms have to help them live in their

habitat.

Rate your Understanding

I think I am an expert

I think I have a good idea

? I think I have got some of it

Help – can you go through it

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