Blackline Master 2.

5-1

Name: ___________________________________________________ Date: _____________________________

Food Chains:
1. Make a food chain with grass, grasshopper, chicken and human.
Can you make more than one food chain?
grasshopper
human

chicke grass
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2. In your food chain above, label a plant, herbivore, omnivore & carnivore.

Food Webs
3. If we add a coyote, owl and mouse, add to your food chain to make a food web.

4. Summarize: What do food chains and food webs communicate?

Energy Flow in Ecosystems
How does energy flow through an ecosystem?

5. Label these terms to the diagram

of a food chain:
A. plant
B. herbivore
C. carnivore
D. producer
E. primary consumer
F. secondary consumer
G. tertiary consumer
H. highest energy
I. lowest energy
J. Lost energy

6. Only 10% of the energy an

organism eats is transferred.
Where does the extra energy go?

How is the Sun’s energy distributed?

● How much is reflected and not absorbed by earth?
● How much is absorbed by the biosphere, hydrosphere & lithosphere?