SuitabookFood relationships and webs
Carol Ballard
- Reading
- Consider the explanations, fieldwork investigations and fact boxes. Discuss whether the investigations help connect food-web ideas with organisms a reader can identify.
- Themes
- Interdependence in living systems: Organisms are linked through the need to find and consume food, with energy passing from one organism to another. The book presents these relationships as a biological process to understand, including the consequences of a chain breaking down.
- Investigating living processes: Fieldwork investigations are included to show how food chains and webs can be identified, alongside fact boxes such as one on echolocation. The book includes fieldwork investigations about identifying food chains and webs, alongside fact boxes offering additional information such as echolocation.
- Worth knowing
- The book could prompt attention to how disruption in one part of a food chain affects other organisms, and to the difference between a simple chain and an interlinking web.