The document contains three food webs and a key. It poses multiple choice and open-ended questions about the food webs that require identifying producers, consumers, decomposers, and describing impacts of removing organisms from the food web. The key provides answers and explanations to the questions.
The document contains three food webs and a key. It poses multiple choice and open-ended questions about the food webs that require identifying producers, consumers, decomposers, and describing impacts of removing organisms from the food web. The key provides answers and explanations to the questions.
The document contains three food webs and a key. It poses multiple choice and open-ended questions about the food webs that require identifying producers, consumers, decomposers, and describing impacts of removing organisms from the food web. The key provides answers and explanations to the questions.
The document contains three food webs and a key. It poses multiple choice and open-ended questions about the food webs that require identifying producers, consumers, decomposers, and describing impacts of removing organisms from the food web. The key provides answers and explanations to the questions.
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Look at this food web. Then answer questions 12-18.
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12) List the producers shown in the food web.
13) List the consumers shown in the food web. 14) List the decomposers shown in the food web. 15) List one food chain that is part of this food web (use arrows to show the transfer of energy). 16) Which animals in the food web are the primary (first level) consumers? 17) Which animals in the food web are the tertiary (third level) consumers? 18) Imagine that a landscaper was frustrated by caterpillars eating the grass of the lawns that he cared for The landscaper decided to use pesticide (a chemical that destroys pests), and successfully killed all of the caterpillars in the ecosystem. What organisms would be affected by the removal of caterpillars in the food web? Explain your answer. Look at this food web. Then use it to answer questions 19-25.
fox perch heron
frog small fish
slug newt
diving beetle water fleas insect tiny water land plants plants
19) Name two producers in the food web.
20) Name three consumers in the food web. 21) Name the animals that the small fish eats. 22) Name the animals that eat the small fish. 23) Explain what could happen to the community if all the frogs suddenly died. 24) How are food webs different to food chains? Explain why food webs are more useful. Look at this food web. Then use it to answer questions 27-33.
25) Which organisms are the producers?
26) Which organisms are the primary consumers? 27) Which organisms are the secondary consumers? 28) Which organisms are the tertiary consumers? 29) List all the herbivores. 30) List 4 unique food chains from this food web: a) b) c) d) 31) Explain in detail what would happen to the food chain if a toxin released by humans killed all the phytoplankton. KEY 12) Grass, corn 13) Mouse, rabbit, caterpillar, bird, hedgehog, fox, lion 14) Bacteria 15) There are many possible answers to this question. Ask your teacher if you are unable to answer it. 16) Mouse, rabbit, caterpillar 17) Fox, lion 18) Assume a closed system (no new animals may arrive or leave) a. Grass would increase (fewer consumers), rabbits would increase, lions may or may not increase (depends on importance of bird population in diet) b. Birds might decrease (depends on importance of caterpillars in diet), mice would increase (fewer birds to eat them), lions/foxes may decrease (depends on importance of caterpillars in diet. c. Hedgehogs would go extinct (no food), foxes may decrease (depends on importance of caterpillars in diet) 19) Tiny water plants, land plants 20) All answers are correct except for water plants or land plants 21) Water fleas and diving beetles 22) Heron and perch 23) Many possible answers: a. Beetle, slug, & insect populations would increase (fewer predators to eat them) i. Therefore, land plant and water flea population would decrease (more animals eating them) ii. Therefore, tiny water plant population would increase (no water fleas eating them) b. Herron and fox populations would decrease (fewer prey available) i. Therefore, small fish, perch, and slug populations would increase (fewer predators to eat them) ii. Therefore, land plants, driving beetle, water flea, and newt populations would decrease (more consumers eating them) 24) Food webs are more complex and therefore more accurately represent the relationships between living things. 25) Phytoplankton 26) Krill, herbivorous zooplankton 27) Things that eat krill (carnivorous zooplankton, other seals, baleen whale, other birds, leopard seal, fish, penguins, squid) and things that eat herbivorous zooplankton (fish, squid, krill, carnivorous zooplankton) (NOTE: Krill is BOTH a primary consumer and a secondary consumer because it eats phytoplankton, a producer, and zooplankton, a primary consumer) 28) Many answers! Reasons listed below. The total list is here: other birds, leopard seal, penguins, elephant seal, squid, sperm whales, penguins, fish, smaller toothed whales, carnivorous zooplankton, baleen whale, other seals a. Eaters of fish (other birds, leopard seal, penguins, elephant seal, squid) b. Eaters of squid (elephant seal, sperm whales, penguins, fish, smaller toothed whales) c. Eaters of krill (carnivorous zooplankton, other seals, baleen whale, other birds, leopard seal, fish, penguins) d. Eaters of carnivorous zooplankton (other seals, other birds, fish) e. Eaters of other seals (smaller toothed whales) f. Eaters of birds (leopard seal) g. Eaters of leopard seals (smaller toothed whales) h. Eaters of penguins (leopard seals, smaller toothed whales) 29) Herbivorous zooplankton only. NOTE: Krill is not an herbivore because it also eats zooplankton which is an animal. 30) There are many possible answers to this question. Ask your teacher if you are unable to answer it. 31) Phytoplankton would die out. All primary consumers would die out because they had no food, which would kill all secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and quaternary consumers. Basically, everything would die.
