Living+Things-Food+Webs

Food Webs

Part 1) Any ecosystem is made up of two components. A) Abiotic factors (the non-living characteristics of an environment such as: sunlight, amount of water/rainfall etc. and   B) Biotic factors. These are the living parts of an ecosystem. Review biotic factors below : media type="custom" key="4458861" width="459" height="320" Try each of the simulations below: 1) [|biotic factors]  2) Work with [|Food chains] 3) Working with food chains and [|consumer vocabulary] 4) Create a Food web [|simulation] [|simulation2] [|simulation 3](this is more difficult)

Activity 2 Watch the [|video] on foodwebs and food chains

Activity 3 Animal Scavegner Hunt: Print off the chart and use the websites below to help you fill in the information needed. What kinds of animals live in the [|Rainforest guide] or the [|tundra] or the [|desert]?

Do you want to know what kind of animals live in different places around the world? Visit The Animal Spot and click on an area of the map to see which animals live there.

Activity 3 Take the quiz below and report your score to the teacher. media type="file" key="Foodwebs.swf" width="573" height="573" align="center"

Activity 4  Using smart ideas (a graphic organizing program under applications), create a food web using the information located here 

 Activity 5 Identifying Plants and animals  If you are looking to identify animals and plants? Try the field guides below:  [|1. enature field guide]  choose the advanced search and click the boxes for colour, size, location etc. to help you narrow down the number of possible organisms.  2. Online [|field guide] (this has links to many different sources)  3. New Jersey [|field guide] (for printable pictures)  4. For a [|bird field guide] 5 . Searching for wildlife scientific names and information can be done at  [|nature serve.]

 6.For [|Invertebrates (Bugs)] 7. [|Learn to identify common][|frogs]

Food chains and Food Webs [|Video]