Question

Help me with a WORKSHEET PLEASE!!!!
the link is attached! :):)

Answer 1

http://sandvigbiology.com/Homework_Lecture_Notes_files/Ecology%20WS%203-1.pdf

Answer 2

Nope.

Answer 3

what?

Answer 4

Jk, look at the first question.

It's asking us for to identify three producers.

A "producer" is an organism that makes its own food.

Plants producers.
Remember, they make their own food, using photosynthesis.

Can you look at the picture and find three plants?

Answer 5

Sorry about the typos. I'm not totally with it right now.

Answer 6

Yeah i got Buckbush
grass
cedar

Answer 7

Yeah okay. Those are all producers, good job.

Now, look at all the animals.

The picture tells us what these animals eat, in parentheses.

"Herbivores" are animals that only eat plants.

Can you find two herbivores?

Answer 8

i only got grasshopper

Answer 9

i can't find the other one

Answer 10

does bark beetle count?

Answer 11

There's the mule deer too.

Yeah it looks like bark beetle would be one.

Answer 12

Ok so grasshopper and mule deer

Answer 13

two carnivores would be cougar and snake?

Answer 14

Yes, they're fine.

Answer 15

I couldn't find an omnivore

Answer 16

One that eats both plants and animals?

Answer 17

yes

Answer 18

Insects count as animals here, because they aren't plants.

Answer 19

Ok

Answer 20

so a gray squirrel?

Answer 21

Yeah that works.

Answer 22

K how about number 5 i dont get how to do it..

Answer 23

Okay.

On the back of the worksheet, you need to make TWO separate food chains,
with FOUR organisms, per chain.

It'll look like this....

Answer 24

You can also make the two lines going vertically, instead of horizontally.

Answer 25

okso what do I put in them

Answer 26

like i don't get it should i put the names of the animals in order

Answer 27

Okay.

If you drew it like I did,
then you need to work on one chain at a time.

Starting from the LEFT SIDE,

Producer >> Primary Consumer >> Secondary Consumer >> Tertiary Consumer

Answer 28

K so i put the producer in the first circle...shall i draw the animal or write its name?

Answer 29

PRODUCERS are PLANTS

PRIMARY CONSUMERS are HERBIVORES

SECONDARY CONSUMERS are usually CARNIVORES.

TERTIARY CONSUMERS are the animals that no other animal would eat.

Answer 30

lol write the name. Don't draw the frikkin animal.

Answer 31

K so i could put any animal and plant?

Answer 32

can u give me an example

Answer 33

Yes, as long as it belongs in the correct category.

For example, you could put GRASS in a spot for PRODUCERS. (The first circle.)

Answer 34

like say grass>>

Answer 35

Yeah.

Both chains have to have totally different animals.

But that shouldn't be a problem.

Answer 36

ok so after grass it could be any animal right?

Answer 37

Any animal that is a Primary Consumer.

An herbivore.

Answer 38

We've already written them down,
so you can just look back on the worksheet.

Answer 39

okay grass>>grasshopper>>lion>>cedar

Answer 40

lol wait here.

Grass >> Grasshopper.

Okay so far.

Answer 41

Lions ARE carnivores.

But they also have no predators.

They are animals that no other animal would eat.

So they're better as tertiary consumers. Not secondary.

Answer 42

And cedar isn't even an animal.

Tertiary Consumers are animals that no other animal would eat.

Answer 43

OHHH

Answer 44

so mule deer as a secondary

Answer 45

Yeah you could put mule deer. That's fine, as a secondary consumer.

Answer 46

ok for the next one can i start with grass again?

Answer 47

No.

It has to be totally different from the first chain.

Answer 48

You can find another producer.

Answer 49

ok buckbush>>mule deer>>

Answer 50

i can't think of any other ones

Answer 51

You've already used mule deer.

And the mule deer is more of a Secondary Consumer. Not a Primary Consumer.

Answer 52

like isnt a cedar not eaten by any animals so its last in the food chain?

Answer 53

No. Because it's not an animal.

Consumers are animals.

And the last circle in the food chain is for Tertiary Consumers.

Answer 54

Okay.

For the first chain, it looks like this, right?

Grass >> Grasshopper >> Mule deer >> ...Lion???

Where did you get Lion?

Answer 55

yup

Answer 56

just like that

Answer 57

lol....Lion isn't even in the picture.

Did you mean Cougar?

Answer 58

do i have to choose from the picture or can i just choose random animals.??

Answer 59

cuz for the next food chain i can't think of any herbivores or the others

Answer 60

No. Gotta be from the picture.

Answer 61

Sorry, I thought you already knew that.

Answer 62

Ok so i got

Answer 63

buckbush>>bark beetle>>

Answer 64

gropher snake>>

Answer 65

and i can't find any last one

Answer 66

Pick a predatory bird.

Answer 67

wait cooper's hawk

Answer 68

I do believe that predatory birds can be considered Tertiary.

The big scary ones that fly high in the sky.

Yeah, that one works.

Answer 69

So it goes like this buckbush>>bark beetle>>gropher snake>>cooper's hawk

Answer 70

Right?

Answer 71

ok number 6

Answer 72

Yeah perfect. Good job!

Answer 73

Okay.

#6 is going to be a son of a b/itch.

Because what we have to do is take EVERY animal in the picture,
and decide what category it belongs to.

That's the first step.

Answer 74

OHH

Answer 75

Every plant too.

But all plants are Producers, so that's easy.

Answer 76

S/HIT hold on! Sorry. I skipped ahead.

Answer 77

ok...?

Answer 78

I skipped to #7.

We haven't looked at #6 yet.

Okay.

It's asking us what animals would be "present in the smallest numbers."

That means..."which animals would there be the fewest of?"

Answer 79

yeah

Answer 80

would it be the producers?

Answer 81

Take a look at this page:
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/F/FoodChains.html

Scroll all the way to the bottom,
and look at the small picture in the LOWER RIGHT corner.