English National Curriculum - Science
Mission Objectives
Identify producers, predators, consumers and prey in a food web
Describe what happens to a population in a food web when another population changes
Explain the pattern of predator and prey populations on a graph
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Words and meanings to learn
consumer
an animal that needs to eat and digest producers or other consumers, or both, to survive
predator
an organism that obtains food by killing and consuming other organisms
producer
organisms that can produce their food through photosynthesis
population
a group of individuals of the same species living in a specific area at the same time
prey
organisms that are hunted and eaten by other organisms (predators)
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