In nature, nothing eats alone. Every food chain is tangled up with others to make a food web, and a change to one living thing ripples through all the rest. In Web Woods, Year 6 scientists trace where the energy goes.
Apa yang akan dipelajari anak anda
- Name producers, consumers, predators, prey and decomposers
- Know that the arrows in a food chain show the direction energy travels
- Link food chains together to make a food web
- Predict what happens when one living thing increases or disappears
It starts with the Sun
Green plants are producers: they make their own food using sunlight. Animals are consumers: they get energy by eating plants or other animals. The arrow in “grass → rabbit → fox” means “is eaten by” — it shows where the energy goes.
Everything is connected
If the rabbits in that web disappeared, the foxes would have less to eat and the grass would grow unchecked. Decomposers — fungi and bacteria — finish the loop by breaking down dead plants and animals so their nutrients return to the soil.
Contoh soalan
Berikut ialah beberapa soalan seperti dalam misi pertama. Bolehkah anda menjawabnya?
1. What is a consumer?
- A plant that makes food
- The Sun
- A kind of rock
- A living thing that eats other living things
Tunjuk jawapan
Jawapan: A living thing that eats other living things. Animals are consumers.
2. An animal that eats both plants and animals is an…
- insect
- carnivore
- herbivore
- omnivore
Tunjuk jawapan
Jawapan: omnivore. Bears and many birds are omnivores.
3. True or false? A food chain always begins with a producer.
Tunjuk jawapan
Jawapan: Betul. Producers bring the Sun’s energy into the chain.
Tip untuk orang dewasa
- Draw a food web for a garden, pond or park you know.
- Pick one living thing in the web and ask: “What if it vanished?”
- Turn over a rotting log to see decomposers at work — then put it back.