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Food Chains
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We have learned about producers, consumers and decomposers, what are
some of the food chains that exist between these organisms in a forest
ecosystem? A food chain is a sequence of organisms from the primary
producer to the top predator or carnivore. In the examples below, the
arrows represent the flow of energy from one animal to the next.
Decomposers are left out of a food chain because technically, the food chain
ends with the top carnivore.
Examples of a food chain:
A.
Producer
Consumer #1
grass
->
rabbit
B.
C.
Producer
acorn bush
->
Producer
poplar tree ->
Consumer #1
squirrel
Consumer #1
caterpillar
->
->
->
Consumer #2
coyote
Consumer #2
owl
Consumer #2
Consumer #3
robin
->
hawk
Your turn, use: grass, wolf, deer
D.
Producer
Consumer #1
Consumer #2
->
->
Now make up three more of your own using 2-3 consumers:
E. - G
Producer
Consumer #1
Consumer #2
->
->
Herbivores, Omnivores & Carnivores
herbivores – a plant eating organism
• Ie. Deer, elk, rabbits
omnivores – an organism which eats both plants and animals.
• Ie. People, bears
carnivores – a meat eating organism
• Ie. Wolves, cougars, coyotes
Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Consumers
primary consumer – the first consumer to eat the producer
• Ie. C. caterpillar
secondary consumer – a consumer which eats the first consumer
• Ie. C. robin
tertiary consumer – a consumer which eats the second consumer
• Ie. C. hawk
Please create a neat, fully coloured diagram, in your visual journal,
depicting an example of a food chain, that would naturally occur in a
Canadian forest. It must have a producer and three consumers.
Follow the requirements outlined in the rubric below:
Food Chain Rubric
Criteria
Student Self-
Teacher
Assessment
Assessment
Title: has capitals and is spelled correctly
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The food chain depicted is an example of a naturally
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The diagram is fully and neatly coloured
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Diagram is neatly labeled with your name and date
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occurring predation in a Canadian Forest
The producer and three consumers are correctly
labeled according to their species
Each participant in the Food Chain is correctly labeled
using the terms: producer, primary consumer,
secondary consumer and tertiary consumer
The consumers are correctly labeled with the terms:
omnivore, herbivore and carnivore
The direction of the energy is represented by red
arrows