Trees and Forests

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Trees and Forests

• Grade 6 Science
• Miss Hughes

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Food Chains

• What are some food chains that exist in a forest
  ecosystem?
• Acorn bush squirrel owl

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Food Chains

• Cat, caterpillar, poplar tree, robin
• Make a food chain from the things listed above by
  placing them in order and using arrows to show
  energy flow.
• Poplar caterpillar robin cat
• tree

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Food Chains

• A food chain is a sequence of organisms in an
  ecological community, each of which is food for
  the next higher organism from the primary
  producer to the top predator or carnivore.
• Primary consumer first consumer to eat the
  producer
• Secondary consumer a consumer which eats the
  first consumer
• Tertiary consumer a consumer which eats the
  second consumer