science adaptation food chain food Web and forces

• Forces

  • Push
  • Pull
• Forces

  • Can cause an object at rest to start moving
  • Can cause a moving object to speed up, slow down or change its direction of motion
  • Can stop a moving object
  • Can change the shape of an object
• Types of forces

  • Frictional force
  • Elastic spring force
  • Gravitational force
  • Magnetic force
• Frictional force

  The force that opposes motion when two surfaces are in contact
• Elastic spring force

  The force exerted by springs when they are stretched or compressed
• Gravitational force

  The force of attraction between objects and causes objects on the Earth to move
• Magnetic force

  The force exerted by magnets
• Weight

  The force exerted by gravity
• Interactions

  • Food chains
  • Food webs
• Organisms in food chains/webs

  • Producers
  • Animal-eaters
  • Plant-eaters
  • Plant-and-animal eaters
  • Predators
  • Prey
• Adaptations

  • Structural adaptation
  • Behavioural adaptation
• Adaptations


  • Required for survival
  • Coping with extreme temperatures
  • Breathing underwater
  • Living in dark environments
  • Obtaining sunlight
  • Catching prey
  • Protecting against predators
  • Reproducing
• Adaptations for hot environments

  • Streamlined body shape
  • Camouflage
• Adaptations for cold environments

  • Feathers
  • Streamlined body shape
• Adaptations for living in dark environments

  • Night vision
  • Lighting up
• Adaptations for obtaining sunlight

  • Climbing on supports
  • Creeping on the ground
  • Waxy leaves
  • Air spaces
  • Hairs
• Adaptations for catching prey

  • Having strong jaws and claws
  • Having strong senses
  • Having scales, shells and spines
  • Having a sticky tongue
  • Camouflaging
  • Moving fast
  • Hunting in groups
  • Having poison
  • Appearing bigger
• Adaptations for protecting against predators

  • Using traps and venom
  • Camouflaging
• Adaptations for reproducing


  • Colourful body coverings
  • Mating behaviour
  • Adaptations for pollination
  • Adaptations for getting seeds dispersed