Introduction:

Food chains and webs are found on every part of the Earth.  Did you know that even you are part of a food web?  By completing the webquest on food chains and food webs, you will learn all you ever wanted about the cycle of food that happens everyday.

 

Directions:

Click on the websites listed below and READ the information that is presented.  You may click on the links that have to do with the food chain/web.  Once you are done, you may use the websites to answer the questions.

 

 

Websites:

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/FoodChain/FoodChain.htm

 

http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/energy/sciber/chains.htm

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/living/03b_act.shtml

 

http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/index.cfm

 

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/food/food_menu.html

 

 

Questions:

Use the following website to answer the questions: http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm

 

1. Where do organisms get energy from to move and grow?

 

2. A food chain always starts with ____________________ and ends with ____________________.

 

3. What is a producer?

 

4. What is a herbivore?

 

5. What is a carnivore?

 

6. What is an omnivore?

 

7. What is a decomposer?

 

8. What is a consumer?

 

9. What happens the further along the chain you go and why?