Food Webs!

Food Webs!

- Carl Safina

"If you're over fishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

​Acidifying- to make or become acid.
Conceivably- In the manner of being capable of being imagined.

​In food chains and webs there are arrows. These arrows represent "gives energy to." Like if you saw this picture, you could easily say the corn "gives energy to" the mouse.

​What do the arrows mean?

​This is a food chain. It's just one circle (or line) of animals and it shows what animals eat.

Here's an example-

​Food Chains

This food chain shows a plant being eaten by the deer, which is then eaten by the wolf. Then the decomposers will break down dead and decaying material and return the energy back to the soil.

(When looking at a food chain, you always start with the plant)

​This is a food web. It's a ton of food chains crammed into one picture showing what animals eat and what animals give their energy to.

Here's an example-

​Food Webs

This picture shows the bird giving energy to the eagle and fox while it takes energy from (eats) the grasshopper and the plants. On the next page, you will be asked to tell me the rest.

Open Ended

Now tell me what the plants, grasshopper, squirrel, eagle, and fox all eat and give energy to. (In that order)

Make sure can understand what you're trying to say.

(If they do not take energy or give energy to anything, just say so at the end of your open ended question.)

THIS QUESTION IS 3 POINTS