Food Chain and Food Web
Food Chain and Food Web: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Seed Dispersal, Interaction between Biotic and Abiotic Components, Food Chain, Plant Origin Products, Animal Origin Products, and Food Web.
Important Questions on Food Chain and Food Web
Name any three kinds of food items we get from plants.
Which of the following is a plant origin product?
List few products obtained from plants.
What are plant products? List a few products that are obtained from them.
What animals are responsible for producing honey?
What is the material from which belts and shoes are made?
What food products come from dairy animals?
List some products obtained from animals.
Many food chains get interlinked to form a food web.
Choose from the following:
(decayed, carbon dioxide, food-web, Green, sun, Pitcher plant, Sundew plant, food chain)
In a _____ one organism can eat many other organisms.
Complete the table:
| Biotic/Abiotic factors | Interdependence |
| Fish |
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| Water |
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| Banyan tree |
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| Lotus | |
| Rock | |
| Air | |
| Frog | |
| Water Snake | |
| Light | |
| Tortoise | |
| Soil | |
| Vines |
Living things do not depend on abiotic factors like soil, air, etc.
How do biotic and abiotic factors depend on each other? Discuss.
State true or false.
The size of the seed determines whether that can be dispersed by water.
Sam went on a field trip to observe and study the different forms of seed dispersal methods during monsoon season. Which method of seed dispersal is unlikely to happen during this time of the year?
State true or false.
Dispersal of seeds in a natural way of preventing overcrowding of plants.
What does the food web start with?
Why is seed dispersal necessary?
Give reason: Human beings depend on both the biotic and abiotic components of the environment.
Wind, water and animals act as agents of dispersal of seeds.
