Scavenger Hunt

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? _________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Rewrite in the correct order: secondary consumer, primary producer, primary consumer, tertiary consumer, quaternary consumer. _________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Explain the reasoning for your order in question 3. _________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What is a consumer? _________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What is a heterotroph? _______________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What is a top predator? ______________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Using carnivores and herbivores as examples, explain the concept of equilibrium. ____________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. What is the difference between a primary producer and a primary consumer? ________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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? _____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Which organism did you place second in the food chain? Why?__________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Which organism did you place last in the food chain? Why? ______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2 12. From the food chains you created, list two autotroph and heterotroph examples. _____________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13. From the food chains you created, list three carnivore and herbivores examples. _____________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. After making many food chains of your own, judge whether the following example is correct? Why or why not? Example: Grass Lion  Cow __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________