Activity T7: Food Chains on Tiritiri Matangi

Tiritiri Matangi Activity	Teacher Manual P 30 Science Level 4 Making Sense of the Living World Created 21/09/2001	AO4 - Students can use simple food chains to explain the feeding relationships of familiar animals and plants and investigate effects of human intervention on these relationships. SLO - Students will be able to discuss and explain simple food chains available on Tiritiri Matangi. © Heurisko Ltd www.learnz.org.nz/2001

Read Restoration, Kokako, Wattlebirds and Birds of Tiritiri Matangi. Food chains show how organisms gain food (energy) from eating each other in a community. This is a diagram of a cow pat food chain. Fungi and worms live in and on the cowpat. Starlings eat the worms and then in turn are eaten by a harrier. Kokako are omnivores as they eat both plant material and animals. Draw a simple food chain showing the plants and animals a kokako would eat. Use these sketches to help you. Kawakawa Coprosma Kokako chicks may have been predated (taken for food) by harriers on Tiritiri Matangi. Draw another food chain for kokako like the one above, introducing a hawk as the top carnivore. (A carnivore is an animal which eats other animals). Draw lines to match these sentences correctly Herbivores animals that eat both plants and animals Carnivores animals which eat other animals Omnivores animals which eat plants Describe three ways that humans have started to restore the food chains on Tiritiri Matangi.