There Was an Old Lady

Name: ______Hr: ______

There Was An Old Lady….

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
I guess she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
I guess she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird.
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
I guess she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat.
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
I guess she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a dog.
My what a hog, to swallow a dog.
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat, to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly.
I guess she'll die. / There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
I don't know how she swallowed a cow.
She swallowed the cow to catch the dog.
She swallowed the dog, to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
that wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly
I guess she'll die.
I know an old lady who swallowed a horse...
She's dead of course!

CREATE A FOOD CHAIN: (Using the poem!)
Write the name of the word/organism on each line.
Pay attention to the arrows.

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Original Energy Source

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Type of Autotroph/Producer

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QUESTIONS

1)What is the original source of energy for the old lady? ______

2)What did you write for your autotroph/producer? What does “autotroph/producer” mean?

3)What were the heterotrophs in your food chain? (List them out.)

4)Which organism was an herbivore?

5)Was there any animal that seemed out of place in your food chain? Explain your reasoning.

6)According to the poem, which animals were 1st—2nd—3rd—4th—5th—and 6th order heterotrophs?

1st order heterotroph = ______

2nd order heterotroph = ______

3rd order heterotroph = ______

4th order heterotroph = ______

5th order heterotroph = ______

6th order heterotroph = ______

7)According to the poem, which organisms belonged in the following trophic levels?

1st trophic level = ______

2nd trophic level = ______

3rd trophic level = ______

4th trophic level = ______

5th trophic level = ______

6th trophic level = ______

7th trophic level = ______

8)Which organism contains the most amount of available energy? ______
Which organism contains the least amount of available energy? ______

9)What percentage of the organism’s stored energy is transferred to the next organism? ______

10)Almost 90% of the energy obtained by an organism is lost as ______.

11)What would happen to your autotrophs and other heterotrophs if you removed the flies? Explain.