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NZ Native Food Chain Worksheet

Use the food-chain details in the questions to answer. Arrows show the direction that energy moves: from the food to the organism that eats it.

Explore a Native Food Chain

Key words: producer — a living thing that makes its own food; consumer — a living thing that gets energy by eating other living things.

1.A harakeke plant makes its own food using sunlight. What is the science word for an organism that makes its own food?

2.A wētā gets energy by eating other living things. What is the science word for an organism that gets energy by eating?

3.In this food chain, what is the original source of energy for the native plants?

4.Which two organisms in the food chain are native plants?

Harakeke and pūriri tree
Tūī and kārearea
Wētā and caterpillar
Pūriri tree and tūī

Follow the Flow of Energy

Use the sequence below to write the food chain with arrows showing the direction energy moves. Choose the correct arrow direction between each stage.

5.Write this food chain using arrows to show how energy moves: sunlight, the native plants identified earlier, caterpillar or wētā, tūī, kārearea.

6.In the food chain described above, what could a tūī eat to get energy?

7.Give one reason that living things need energy.

8.Imagine that there are fewer native plants in this habitat. Describe one possible effect on the caterpillars or wētā, and one possible later effect on tūī or kārearea.

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