The Food Web of the Coniferous Forest
These 4 terms describe how plants and animals eat:
Photosynthesis - - gets energy from the sun
Carnivorous - - gets fuel from animals
Herbivorous - - gets fuel from plants
Omnivorous - - gets fuel from both plants and animals
Read the chart below, and then match the plant or animal with the way it eats.
Food Chains:
Plants- trap sun’s energy
Pine cone seeds – eaten by voles, deer mice, crossbills and ground squirrels
- - eaten and stored by squirrels, Gray Jays, Clark’s nutcrackers, Chickadees
Grass, leaves, twigs –eaten by snowshoe hares
Leaves, twigs, bark-eaten by beavers
Aspen leaves, willow twigs- eaten by moose
Berries eaten by bears (Grizzly and black)
Beetles, caterpillars – eaten by nuthatches
Red Squirrels- eaten by Cooper Hawks & Martens
Voles & Chipmunks –eaten by Great Gray owl
Smaller birds –eaten by Goshawks
Any Small animal –red fox
Porcupines eaten by Fishers (weasel family)
Snowshoe Hares –eaten by foxes, owls, and lynxes
Moose, hares and beavers eaten by wolves
Anything not moving out of their way &
Large animals eaten by wolverines, the size of a small, but strongly built dog.
Blood (all animals) –eaten by black flies
Dead animals eaten by ravens
Cooper’s Hawks- decompose, eaten by bacteria and worms.
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Match the plant or animal with the way it eats. The first one is done for you.
Carnivorous
Herbivorous
Omnivorous
Photosynthesis
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