Review: Week 1 of Food Chain

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Review: Week 1 of Food Chain

I.  Part 1 vocabulary review:

1.  ____ Food Chain a. feed on secondary consumers

2.  ____ Producer b. sequence of who eats whom in an ecosystem to obtain energy

3.  ____primary Consumer c. animals that feed on herbivores.

4.  ____secondary consumer d. organisms that feed on producers.

5.  ____tertiary consumers e. organism that produces energy from the sun by process of photosynthesis

6.  ____herbivores f. Eats both plants and animals

7.  ____ carnivores g. meat eaters

8.  ____omnivores h. plant eaters

9.  Food chain starts with what?

10.  What do the arrows on a food chain represent?

11.  What is the ultimate energy for all life on Earth (where does it come from?)

12.  What travels through a food chain?

13.  The 1st organism in a food chain must always be what type of organism?

14.  Make a food chain with a producer and three consumers:

Part II. Creating Food Chains:

A.  Create a food chain for the following organisms.

B.  Label if it is a producer, consumer, decomposer or scavenger

C.  Label what type of consumer: Herbivore, Carnivore, or Omnivore

15.  Grasshopper, sun, snake, hawk, rat, grass, bacteria

16.  Dragonfly larva, fish, algae, sun, mosquito larva, raccon, mushroom

17.  Sun, Zooplankton, phytoplankton, white shark, seal, fish

18.  Sun, zebra, grass, lion, bacteria

19.  Sun, fish, snail, algae

Part III. Rippling Effect

Each situation describes a change in a food chain environment. In complete sentences describe how the changes will affect the organisms in each food chain.

1.  Over harvesting depletes much of crab population

Duckweed à Crabs à Herons

2.  Hunters wipe out most of the bear population in the forest.

Treesà Deer à Bears

3.  A lawn care company sprays poisonous fertilizer on the grass.

Grass à Grasshoppers à Frogs à Snakes

Create the largest food chain possible: Use the following list of plants and animals in for their food chains. If your stuck add other organisms to complete a cycle or reuse a decomposer. A scavenger (example: vulture) shouldnot be included every time.

Bacteria deer mushroom bat dogwood tree (fruits)

Oak tree (acorns) beetle dragonfly owl blacksnake

earthworm raccoon blueberry bush fox salamander

blue jay fungi spider bumblebee grass

toad butterfly hawk vulture cherry tree

minnow wildflower wren mosquito woodpecker

chipmunk mosquito woodpecker crayfish moth

wood rat crayfish mouse carpenter ant