FOOD CHAIN AND FOOD WEB WEBSITES

A. Read the information on this website:

http://www.sciencebob.com/lab/q-web-chain.html

1.  What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?

B. Read the website and answer the questions afterwards:

http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

Make sure you click on the link “interconnected food chains” so you can play and make a food web, too.

1.  Why are there more herbivores than carnivores?

2.   Why do most food chains have at most 4 or 5 links?

C. Answer all of the questions on "Identify the Food Chains"

Write the answers on a separate piece of paper.

http://www.cas.psu.edu/DOCS/WEBCOURSE/WETLAND/WET1/identify.html

D. Play all the games on

http://teacher.scholastic.com/ACTIVITIES/explorer/ecosystems/be_an_explorer/map/foodweb_play.htm

E. Do all 4 "Build your own food web" on

http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm