Australian Grassland Food Web
The secondary customers are the maggie echidna emu and frilled lizard then the primary customers are the blue faced honey badger termites kangaroos and wombats.
Australian grassland food web. Tick whether the organism is a producer or consumer herbivore or carnivore. All food chains begin with a producer an organism that can make its own food e g. Annual rainfall varies from 400 to 650 mm with summer dominance. As you can see the three predators on top of their own food chains are the dingo the wedge tailed eagle and the laughing kookaburra.
In this food web there are several trophic levels. This is because the primary producers absorbed it then the primary consumers eat the. Complete the following table. Aulstralian grassland food web this is an example of one of the many food webs that may be witnessed in a grassalnd and it includeds the producers grasses whattle tree the herbivores who are primary consumers kangaroos wombats the carnivores and omnivores that make up the secondary consumers magpie emu and the carnivores of the tertiary consumers dingo.
Further information on all species may be found in the. Australian grasslands food web decomposer 1 consumer 2 primary consumer 6 tertiary consumer 5 secondary dingo wedge tailed eagle echidna secondary consumer consumer 4 secondary kangaroos primary consumer decomposer 2 primary producer fungi termites earthworm consumer 1. Organism producer consumer herbivore carnivore common everlasting daisy australian painted lady spotted marsh frog growling grass frog. A food chain indicates who eats who and depicts a flow of energy.
The producers in this web are the grasses wattle tree and gum tree. Draw the food web in the space below. This is a food web of the australian grasslands. All food chains begin with a producer an organism that can make its own food e g.
This in the web are the crickets wombats and kangaroos they only consume the producers. Apart from small areas of treeless grassland these communities form the herbaceous layer of temperate woodlands growing on a range of soils extending from southern queensland through new south wales and victoria to southeast south australia with other areas near adelaide in tasmania and in the southwest of western australia. Water and other environmental factors would be considered abiotic factors. Welcome to the grassland food webs learning object food webs consist of a number of interlinking food chains within an ecosystem.
Grassland food webs levels 4 7 to assist teachers in delivering a program involving food chains and food webs teacher notes and student activity worksheets have been developed to supplement the use of the grassland food webs learning object. As you go up the food web the trophic level increase. Welcome to the grassland food webs learning object food webs consist of a number of interlinking food chains within an ecosystem. The abiotic factor shown in this food web is the sun.
Within this learning object students may construct a very easy food chain and up to three food webs of varying levels of difficulty each involving a range of grassland species. A food chain indicates who eats who and depicts a flow of energy.