Task

    In this Web Quest, you will use the internet to research a specific biome and create a food web based on your research.  Finally, you will present your food web to the class, identifying the producers and consumers. 

 Process

    1.  After the movie, you will be divided into groups of no more than 4.  Each group will take a turn and choose one of the following biomes to research:

• Tundra

• Boreal Forest

• Tropical Rain Forest

• Temperate Forest

• Savanna and Grasslands

• Desert

• Aquatic

    2.  Once you have chosen your working biome, you will use the internet to research the habitat and the animals that live in it.  The provided web sites will give you a good start, but you will also need to complete your own searches using the Google search engine.  For example, you might search for "Savanna food web", or "Desert Animals"  as keywords to supplement the provided web sites.

        Major Biomes of the World

         Blue Planet Biomes

         Food Webs and Chains

   4.  Remember what your ultimate goal is, to construct your own food web for your biome based on research.  Here are the following requirements for the food web that will help guide your research:

•    Your food web must have at least 15 different species from your biome

  Try and get a population estimate of each species when possible

•    The species must include at least 3 producers, 2 top-level consumers and 1 decomposer

  tally the total population number at each level

•    Use arrows to connect different animals, as illustrated HERE describing the flow of energy

• Distinguish between the different trophic levels by making them color coded    

Producers - Green

Primary Consumers - blue

Secondary Consumers- Orange

Tertiary Consumers- Red

• You should include a global map of where your biomes are located (use global map provided) Place this map at the bottom right hand corner of your poster.
• You need to include several abiotic factors about your biome and explain the connection between them and some of the species in your food web
• temperature
• rainfall
• soil conditions
• wind
• etc

   5.  Draw your food web on a poster board. Big title of your biome & pictures of animals with arrows 

6. You need to look up and write a 1 page report on an environmental issue impacting your specific biome and describe how it might impact the food web that you have created (more than just it will kill them all). attach this to the bottom left hand corner of your poster

   7.  Present your food web to the class, explaining the different levels, and your biome.

   8.  Every member of the group must participate in the research, production and presentation of the food web.