The Food Chain, according to Dr. Suess (from Scramble Eggs Super) I went for the kind that were mellow and sweet And the world's sweetest eggs are the eggs of the Kweet Which is due to those very sweet trout which they eat And those trout ... well, they're sweet 'cause they only eat Wogs And Wogs, after all, are the world's sweetest frogs And the reason they're sweet is, whenever they lunch It's always the world's sweetest bees that they munch And the reason no bees can be sweeter than these... They only eat blossoms off Beezlenut Trees And those Beezlenut Blossoms are sweeter than sweet And that's why I nabbed several eggs from the Kweet.
Poster – Draw a food chain or web, including all of the organisms mentioned in the story, on the back of this page. Include: 1. The Sun 2. Label each trophic level ­ producers (autotrophs) and consumers (heterotrophs) ­ as primary, secondary, etc. 3. Starting with 1000 Kg of biomass in the producers, label the amount of ingested material that is actually converted into new biomass (what each living thing is made of). 4. Add at least one decomposer. Be creative! Answer the following questions in complete sentences on the back of your diagram. 1. Why ISN’T the sun assigned a trophic level in the food chain? 2. How many trophic levels are in the food chain? 3. How does energy enter this food chain? 4. How does energy flow once it has entered the food chain? 5. In what form does energy leave the food chain? 6. What happens to chemical energy not converted to biomass? 7. How does matter transfer and cycle once it has entered the food chain? 8. Is matter ever lost in the way energy is? 9. Which trophic level(s) transfer(s) energy and matter to the decomposer? 10. What effect would you expect on this food chain if a producer is removed? 11. What effect would you expect on this food chain if a primary consumer (herbivore) is removed? 12. What effect would you expect on this food chain if the top level consumer (you) is removed (experiences local extinction)? 13. What effect would you expect on this food chain if the decomposer is removed? 14. What would you have to add to this food chain to consider it a food web? Task Draw a food chain, including all the organisms mentioned in the story. Don’t forget the sun. /2 Label each trophic level – producers (autotrophs) and consumers (heterotrophs) – as primary, secondary, or tertiary consumers /1 3. At each level, label what percentage of the energy in the food consumed is actually converted into new biomass (what each living thing is made of). /2 Add at least one decomposer (be creative) Answer questions 1­13 in complete sentences. Creativity and effort. Total Points /1 /13 /1 /20 Points