Food Webs & Interdependence
Science · Ecosystems & Habitats · conceptual
Construct and interpret food webs showing the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, explaining how a change in one population affects others
What mastery looks like
- Draws a food web from given data with arrows showing energy flow direction
- Predicts how the population of one species would change if another species increased or decreased
- Distinguishes a food web from a food chain and explains why webs are more realistic
- Identifies producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and apex predators
Check your understanding
If Food Webs & Interdependence was shown a diagram with lots of animals connected by arrows, could they explain what it means — tracing what eats what — and predict what would happen if one animal disappeared from the web?