EJARA, JAMAICA S.

ZGE- 4301 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

BFN 2E

M1 ACTIVITY NO.4

Food Webs and Food Chains Worksheet

1 Look at this food chain.

Lettuce greenfly ladybird thrush cat

a What does the arrow mean in a food chain?__it means the direction
where the energy is transferred from one specie to the other
b Name the producer in the food chain _Lettuce
c Name the third trophic level in the food chain. ___ladybird
d Name the tertiary consumer in the food chain. ___thrush
e What is the ultimate source of energy that drives the food chain?
the lettuce
Use the food web to help you answer these questions.

b Name the producer in this food web. __grass

c Name a consumer in this food web. ___thrush
d What eats rabbits? __cat_and fox
e What does a fox eat? _____the fox eats the slug or the rabbit

3 Look at this food web. Then answer the questions.

a Name two producers in the food web. - the land plants and the tiny water
plants
b Name three consumers in the food web. ___frog, fox, and the heron
c Write a food chain from this food web with six trophic levels. __land
plants – insect – diving beetle – small fish – perch - heron
d Name the animals that the small fish eats. ___water fleas
e Name the animals that eat the small fish. ____perch

f Explain what could happen to the community if all the frogs suddenly died.
There would have an unbalanced in the food chain, the species that frogs
eat would increase in population and the species that eats the frog would
decline or worse may lead to extinction.

4. How are food webs different to food chains? Explain why food webs are
more useful.
Food web shows more complex detail about the flow of the nutrients of an
organism in each trophic level, while food chain shows the distribution of
energy from the producer to the different level of consumers.

5. Make your own food chain and food web.

FOOD CHAIN
FLOWER (NECTAR) – BEE – FROG – SNAKES – EAGLE
FOOD WEB