4/27 Food Chains and Food Webs Practice

Food Chains / Food Webs Click on the link to visit the website. Translate if you need to with a tap on your touch pad.Once you open the website, SCROLL DOWN it to read and do the activity. Platte River Prairie Food Chains Interactive Click the link to build food chains and food webs. (same as the first link) Translate each food web! Build a Food Chain! What type of organism was at the beginning of each food chain? plants snakes birds mice What is an animal decomposer from one of the food chains? butterfly earthworm mouse owl What is the small flying insect that fish eat? butterfly bird caddisfly fish What was one of the top carnivores in the food web? caddisfly garter snake mouse owl Energy for Organisms Where does each organism get its energy? Match them Opossum (omnivore) Eats plants, bugs, and birds Butterfly (herbivore) Sips nectar from flowers Owl (carnivore) Eats mice, snakes and frogs Milkweed plant (producer) energy from the sun What do the arrows point towards in each food web? the arrows point to the producers the arrows show the flow of energy the arrows point to the predators the arrows point to the carnivores Look at the food web and answer the question below. What would happen if all of the butterflies and mice disappeared from the food web?