Question

Can someone help me create a food web please?

Answer 1

I recommend you this website: https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/creating-chains-and-webs-model-ecological-relationships

You will find a set of cards with animals of the Gorongosa National Park to build a trofic web of that ecosystem.

Answer 2

Alright. What kind of food web.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I can help you through it, however I cannot give you a direct answer.

Answer 5

First, what is a producer?

Answer 6

@Ghostedly The producer is the first level in the food chain & it serves as a food source for consumers.

Answer 7

Okay, so what do you think would go into that blank labeled "Producer"?

Answer 8

1. The producer is__________

Answer 9

@Ghostedly I'm not exactly sure

Answer 10

@Ghostedly What should I pick for this question?
The ecosystem we are creating is a (circle one)
Rainforest
Tundra
Deciduous Forest
Desert

Answer 11

Hmmm, I don't know. I believe your class has spoke of this, no?

Answer 12

What ecosystem is your class creating?

Answer 13

@Ghostedly Rainforest

Answer 14

So there's your answer.

Answer 15

For Producer... What does a producer do? Its name gives it away.

Answer 16

@Ghostedly The producer - produces

Answer 17

Exactly. It produces its own food. Now what can do this?

Answer 18

Plants. So, let's say for Producer, put Plants.

Answer 19

Plants create their own food. They do this by using light energy from the Sun, carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil to produce food.

Answer 20

@Ghostedly Thank you that's a good example

Answer 21

Put that where it says: "How do you know this is a producer"
And where it asks for a producer, put Plants.

Answer 22

Now, for Herbivore. Do you know what a Herbivore is?

Answer 23

The herbivore is the animals that feed on plants.

Answer 24

Yes, exactly. Could you think of any animals that eat plants?

Answer 25

@Ghostedly monkeys, ants, squirrels?

Answer 26

Hmm, not Monkeys, I don't think. And squirrels eat nuts. Now remember, nuts aren't producers. An example would be Cows, Sheep, Goats, and Deer.

Answer 27

Cows, sheep, goat, & deer aren't in a rainforest though.. are they?

Answer 28

What about gorillas, elephants, and deer?

Answer 29

Ahhh, I see. I seem to have forgotten.

Answer 30

And rhinoceros, chimpanzee?

Answer 31

You only need one, yes? Deer or elephants, it is your choice.

Answer 32

Yes, rhinos as well.

Answer 33

I see that you need two Carnivores. Let's say a bear eats the elephant. What will eat the bear?

Answer 34

Hmmm, I say we switch our food chain around a bit. Put Plants as the Producer. Grasshopper/other insect as a Herbivore. Frog as first Carnivore. And a Jaguar as the second carnivore.

Answer 35

Food web*

Answer 36

An example of a Decomposer is something that feeds on dead plants and animals. So, it would probably be... Fungi, Bacteria, Etc.

Answer 37

And for the writing part, you could put something like: "A food web consists of many food chains. A food chain only follows just one path as animals find food. Example: A hawk eats a snake, which has eaten a frog, which has eaten a grasshopper, which has eaten grass. A food web shows the many different paths plants and animals are connected."

Answer 38

This is for number 3.

Answer 39

Yes, all I did was give you an example. You are to change any answer I give you so that it's in your own words.

Answer 40

Hmmm, I take it they have to be one of the ones we have used in out Food web?

Answer 41

What do you think is the answer? Which two animals would compete in our food web?

Answer 42

Perhaps those two. Because I do not see a competition between the Frog and Jaguar, and between the Grasshopper and plants.

Answer 43

Sorry, Openstudy froze.

Answer 44

And yes, you are right. This question wouldn't make any sense unless it was a Snake Vs Hawk.

Answer 45

If you want. It would seem like a reasonable thing to do.
Plant gets eaten by grasshopper, which gets eaten by rat, which gets eaten by snake, which gets eaten by hawk.

Answer 46

Or, you could have a mouse eating the plants.

Answer 47

So, plants get eaten by mouse, which gets eaten by snake, which gets eaten by hawk.

Answer 48

Sorry if I have caused any confusion, but I did not know that you had to write about two animals having a competition.

Answer 49

@Answers101

Answer 50

No, Producer: Plants, Herbivore: Mouse, 1st carnivore: Snake, 2nd carnivore: Hawk.

Answer 51

No, the Hawk and Snake.

Answer 52

Yes, over the rat, I believe.

Answer 53

Well, without the Producers, the Herbivores would die out. And the Carnivores would die out as well, because they feed on Herbivores, and there isn't anything left to eat. I hope this isn't too confusing.

Answer 54

There would be no more Mouses, I believe.

Answer 55

Plants would decrease.

Answer 56

No, no. Your 1st carnivore is a snake.

Answer 57

Mouses don't eat meat. They are the herbivores.

Answer 58

Fungi, and Bacteria.