Food Web Quest

Complete the following questions on Food Webs:

mbhsbiochem1.blogspot.com:
1) Read the following website to refresh your mind about ecosystems and food webs:  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/foodchain/


2) Define the following terms and give an example of each type of organism (keep your definitions short)
a) Producer
b) Consumer
c) Decomposer
d) Carnivore
e) Herbivore
f) omnivore
g) ecosystem

3) Do a word dissection on the following two words using the links.  Which words from #2 are they synonyms of?
a) Autotroph: http://bioetymology.blogspot.com/2011/07/autotroph.html
b) Heterotroph: http://bioetymology.blogspot.com/2011/07/heterotroph.html


4) Define the term: Trophic Level

5) What does a food chain show?

6) How is a food web different than a food chain?

7) Play the food web game: 
http://www.coolclassroom.org/cool_windows/home.html


8) Game analysis: What is the difference between the 4 levels of consumers?


9) Draw an energy pyramid in your notebooks like in the website: Energy Pyramids
http://www.learner.org/courses/essential/life/session7/closer5.html

a)why is the energy pyramid shaped like a pyramid?

10) Brooklyn bridge park:
http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/
check out the website for the park we will be visiting on monday.
a) why do you think we are visiting this park for Biochemistry Class?
b) Write down 2 facts and 2 questions you have about the park