Ocean Food Webs
Your child knows a food web joins many food chains together. Catching too many of one fish does not just harm that fish. It upsets the whole web.
In curriculum terms
Understand ocean food webs: multiple interconnected food chains where energy flows from phytoplankton (producers) through zooplankton, small fish, and large predators, and that removing one species affects the whole web
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Can your child explain why catching too many of one type of fish doesn't just affect that fish — it affects the whole food web, including the animals that eat it and the things it eats?
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Curriculum alignment
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Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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