Food Chain
Mobiles
INTRODUCTIONAs
you conclude your study of ecosystems and the relationships between biotic
and abiotic factors, you should have a basic understanding of how a food
chain within a particular biome would operate. I
forgot! What is a food chain? As
you will remember, a food chain shows how food energy is passed from organism
to organism. You
and your partner(s) will be responsible for researching and creating such a
food chain, making a mobile of it, and explaining it to the class. PROCEDURESOnce
your group has selected a biome you may begin your research. You will need to
find out about the kind of producers, consumers and decomposers living in the
biome. It would be a good idea to sketch what your mobile will look
like before you begin drawing or printing pictures. You
may choose to draw or print pictures of the examples you choose to use. If
you are going to print, please copy and paste all pictures onto ONE
Word document and print. This will require that you shrink some pictures to
ensure that they all fit. Any group caught excessively printing will
lose points on their project. REQUIRMENTS Your mobile must include: v Producers v Primary consumers v Secondary consumers v Decomposers v Remember, there should be
more producers than primary consumers, more primary consumers than secondary,
and so on You
must correctly show how energy is being transferred from one organism to
another…. make sure that your mobile is in correct order!! Each
part of the food chain must be represented on a separate index card. The
index card must include: v Drawing/picture of aspect
being represented v Name of drawing/picture v Role in Food Chain/Biome v How it receives its energy v How energy is transferred
from it v Brief description of
habitat LINKS Desert Forests – All Types Tropical
Rain Forest Food Chain Grassland/Prairie Tundra Water Biomes |