Producers, Consumers, Decomposers

1. Watch the brainpop video: https://www.brainpop.com/science/ecologyandbehavior/foodchains/
 Play the food chain game: https://www.brainpop.com/games/foodchaingame/

2. Go to the website and answer the following questions:  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/producersconsumers.htm

 a. What is the difference between a producer and a consumer?

 b. Give three examples of each: herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore.

 c. What are decomposers?  What would the environment look like if we had no decomposers?

3.  Play this game!  http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/index.cfm
Copy the NORTHERN Food Chain and the FOREST Food Chain into your notebooks and answer the following questions: 
a. What happens if you take the frog out of the FOREST Food Chain?                              b. What happens if you take the fish out of the NORTHERN Food Chain?

4.  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/foodchain.htm
 a. Draw a picture of "photosynthesis."

5. http://www.goldridge08.com/1games/foodchain.swf
a. What does a food chain show?
b. What is the purpose of an arrow in the food chain?
c. Green plants are called _________ because they make their own ____.
d. Give three examples of a consumer.
e. If most food chains begin with green plants, where do they get their energy from?
f. What makes the bird both a predator and prey at the same time?

6. Complete the meadow, arctic and pond foodwebs:  http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/food_menu.html

7. http://www.iknowthat.com/ScienceIllustrations/foodchains/science_desk.swf
a. __________ eat only plants.
b. __________ are meat-eaters.
c. __________ eat both plants and animals.

8. http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/foodweb.htm
a) Answer the following questions in your notebooks using the food web shown in the website above.

Identify the: 1. Producers 2. Primary Consumers 3. Secondary Consumers 4. Herbivores 5. Carnivores 6. Omnivores 7. What elements are missing from this food web? b) In your notebooks, Construct a Food web using the following animals.  This ecosystem represents a farm area.  The corn is the main source of food for many of the herbivores in the area.  You do not have to draw pictures, you can just use the animal names and draw arrows between them.   SNAKE,  CORN , CATERPILLAR, DEER, CROW, MOUSE, COUGAR, SQUIRREL, MICROORGANISMS (decomposers) 9. Play the following games:    http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm   http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/producersconsumersgame.htm http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/animaldietgame.htm 10. https://www.brainpop.com/games/foodfight/Ecogame.swf