Anna's+work+food+webs+and+chains

This investigation is about the wetland ecosystem. It is located in newels paddock, Maribyrnong. The map here shows where Newels Paddock is situated. The table below shown the plants, animals and what they eat found in the ecosystem

platypus
 * Type of animals || Animals  || What it eats?  ||
 * Mammals || fox

Rabbit <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Raccoon <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Beaver || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Rodents, rabbits, carrion, fruit <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">small fish, fish eggs, invertebrates, frogs, and tadpoles <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Grass <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Frogs, fish <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Plants || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">turtles <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">alligators <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">diamond python <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">tiger snake || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Insects <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Plants <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Small mammals, turtle, fish <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Mammals, birds and occasionally lizards <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Lizards ,eels, fish, rats, small birds and other small snakes || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">duck || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Insects <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Aquatic plants, insects, fish || ====<span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Floating water plants ==== ====<span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Emergent water plants (plants where the roots are underwater but the plant grows partially out of the water) ==== <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Trees and shrubs <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Grass || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">grasshopper
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Reptile || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">lizards
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Birds || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">bird
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Plants: ||   || ====<span style="display: block; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Submerged water plants (plants that grow underwater)  ====
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Fish ||   || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Insects  ||
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Insects: live plants || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">dragonfly

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">spider || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Insect, worms <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Bits of plants

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Insects, small fish and tadpoles. ||
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Frog || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">frog  || <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: 75.9pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Insects, worms, other small animals  ||

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> Below is the food chains created by the animals found in the wetland ecosystem. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Grass – Insects – spiders – lizard - tiger snake <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Under water plant – fish – geese - alligator <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Trees – Insects – frog – python <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Seaweed or coral - krill - small fish - piranha – shark <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Grass – insects – lizard – diamond python <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Aquatic plants – grass hopper –frog – platypus <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Trees and shrubs – fish - duck – foxes. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Below is the food webs created by the food chains. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm -2cm 10pt -17pt; text-indent: -18pt;">a) Producers: Producers are the organisms that produce their own food from their non-living environment. The producers are shown in the food web. b) Consumers are organisms that eat other organisms of their products. The first, second and third order consumers shown in the food web. c) Omnivores are the animals that eat both plants and animals. <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm -2cm 10pt -17pt;"> Herbivores are the animals that only eat plants. Carnivores are the animals that eat other animals. <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm -2cm 10pt -17pt; text-indent: -18pt;">d) Animals that eat animals are called predators. e) Animals that are eaten by others animals are called preys.