AC9S4U01 Year 4 Science

Content descriptor explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships

Elaborations

• • Elaboration describing how animals, including humans, obtain their food from plants and other animals
• • Elaboration observing living things in a local habitat and categorising them as producers, consumers or decomposers
• • Elaboration researching the different types of decomposers and their importance within a habitat
• • Elaboration representing feeding relationships of producers and consumers as a food chain and comparing food chains across different habitats
• • Elaboration recognising how First Nations Australians perceive themselves as being an integral part of the environment
• • Elaboration investigating the impact of introduced predators such as foxes on small mammal species in Australia
• • Elaboration researching how the removal of a food source from within a habitat, such as through an insect or rodent infestation, affected other living things within that habitat