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Food Chains Name/Date 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 /1 /1 The food chain depicted is an example of a naturally /4 /4 /4 /4 /4 /4 /3 /3 /1 /1 The diagram is fully and neatly coloured /2 /2 Diagram is neatly labeled with your name and date /1 /1 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