Food Chain: Scavenger Hunt 1

Site A: https://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/foodchain/
Site B: https://www.cserc.org/sierra-fun/games/build-food-chain/

Part A: Visit site A above and read about food chains to answer the questions below:

1. Why do organisms need energy? ____________________________________________________________________

2. What is a food chain? _________________________________________________________________________________
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3. Rewrite in the correct order: secondary consumer, primary producer, primary consumer,
tertiary consumer, quaternary consumer. _________________________________________________________
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4. Explain the reasoning for your order in question 3. _________________________________________________________
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5. What is a consumer? _________________________________________________________________________________
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6. What is a heterotroph? _______________________________________________________________________________
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7. What is a top predator? ______________________________________________________________________________
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8. Using carnivores and herbivores as examples, explain the concept of equilibrium. ____________
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9. What is the difference between a primary producer and a primary consumer? ________________
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Part B: Visit site B above and follow the instructions to make your own food chain, and then
answer the following questions.

9. Which organism did you place first in the food chain? Why? _____________________________________
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10. Which organism did you place second in the food chain? Why?__________________________________
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11. Which organism did you place last in the food chain? Why? ______________________________________
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12. From the food chains you created, list two autotroph and heterotroph examples. _____________
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13. From the food chains you created, list three carnivore and herbivores examples. _____________
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14. After making many food chains of your own, judge whether the following example is correct?
Why or why not? Example: Grass Lion  Cow
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