Objective: Identify food chains and food webs; describe how the flow of energy derived from the sun is transferred through a food chain and food web to consumers and decomposers.
TEKS: 5.9B, 5.9C
April 6-10, 2020
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Read pages 489-497 from their textbooks and answer all questions.
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Pages 490-491
1.What is the initial source of energy for this food chain?
2. Which organisms get energy directly from the sun?
3. How are the feeding relationships indicated in the food chain? (Remember they point to the mouth)
4. What else do the aroows indicate?
5. How would you classify the gull? The fungi?
Pages 492-493
6. What do the aroows represent in this food web?
7. An arrow points from the mouse to the snake. What does the aroow mean?
8. What other organisms does the snake eat?
9. How do you know?
10. What types of organisms are fungi?
11. What must happen in order for fungi to get food energy?
Pages 494-495
12. What position would hawks occupy if this were a forest energy pyramid?
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