Science·Ecosystems & Habitats·representational
Reading Food Web Diagrams
Read and interpret food web diagrams — identify producers, primary and secondary consumers, and decomposers; trace energy flow along food chains within the web; predict the effect of removing or adding a species
Suggested ages 8–9
Learning journey
Your child is exploring how living things interact with each other and their environments — understanding food chains, animal groupings, and how scientists classify and identify different species in nature.
Evidence of understanding
- Identify the producer, herbivore, and carnivore in a food web from a diagram
- Trace two food chains through the same food web and identify shared species
- Predict what would happen to fox numbers if rabbits were removed from a food web diagram
Assessment prompt
If Reading Food Web Diagrams is shown a diagram with arrows connecting plants, insects, frogs, and hawks, can they trace which animals eat which and explain what would happen if the frogs disappeared?
Standards alignment
No external standards are linked to this topic.