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Food Webs and Food Chains Worksheet

1 Look at this food chain.

lettuce

greenfly

ladybird

thrush

cat

a What does the arrow mean in a food chain?

b Name the producer in the food chain
c Name the third trophic level in the food chain.
d Name the tertiary consumer in the food chain.

2. Look at these food chains.

grass
grass
slug
slug
thrush
thrush
cat
cat

fox

grass
grass
slug
slug
fox
fox
grass
grass
rabbit
rabbit
fox
fox

cat

thrush

grass
grass
rabbit
rabbit
cat
cat

slug
a Use the food chains to help you fill in the
arrows on this food web. One has been
added for you.
Use the food web to help you answer these questions.
b Name the producer in this food web.
c Name a consumer in this food web.
d What eats rabbits?
e What does a fox eat?

rabbit
grass

3 Look at this food web. Then answer the questions.

fox

heron
frog

perch

small fish
newt

slug
diving
beetle

water fleas

insect
land plants

tiny water
plants

a Name two producers in the food web.

b Name three consumers in the food web.
c Write a food chain from this food web with six trophic levels..
d Name the animals that the small fish eats.
e Name the animals that eat the small fish.
f Explain what could happen to the community if all the frogs suddenly died.

4. How are food webs different to food chains? Explain why food webs are more
useful.

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8

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17

18

Down
1. An animal that eats other
animals.

19

20

21

Across
2. This monster shark is not dangerous 13. This omnivore eats berries in summer and
to people because it's a filter feeder. Its salmon in the fall.
the biggest fish in the sea!
16. A desert scavenger that can often be seen
5. This predator hunts zebras and
flying above dead animals.
antelope.
17. This is the largest animal in the world and
7. These are often at the bottom of food it is a filter feeder.
chains.
19. An animal that is hunted by other
8. An animal that eats both plants and
animals.
animals.
20. This insect spreads parasites when it
10. Zebra eats grass. Lion eats zebra.
drinks the blood of animals.
What is this an example of?
21. An animal that eats plants.
11. An animal that eats only insects.

3. Plants need this to

produce their own food and
energy.
4. Mice should beware of
this predatory bird at night.
6. This carnivorous fish
lives in the Amazon.
7. An animal that lives in
another plant or animal and
eats that plant or animals
without killing it.
9. This insectivore has a
long tongue and nose,
which it uses to lick up
ants.
10. Many food chains
linked together.
12. An animal that finds
already dead animals to
eat.
14. An animal that hunts
other animals.
15. Many filter feeders in
the ocean eat this.
18. Animals get this from
eating other animals.

Use the food web diagram below to answer questions 1-4.

1. How many producers can you find? ______ Label the producers with a P.
2. How many primary consumers can you find? ______ Label the primary consumers with a

C1.

3. How many secondary consumers can you find? ______ Label the secondary consumers with a
4. How many tertiary consumers can you find? ______ Label the tertiary consumers with a

C3.

C2.

Mitosis vs. Meiosis, Sexual vs. Asexual Reproduction

1. Fill out the following table.
Sexual Reproduction

Asexual Reproduction

Whats a benefit of this type

of reproduction?
Whats a drawback of this
type of reproduction?

2. Examine the chromosomes in the following cells. Then label if they were created through
mitosis or meiosis. Explain your reason for labeling the cells as you did.

Type of Cell:
Type of Cell:
Reason:
Reason:

Type of Cell:
Type of Cell:
Reason:

Reason:

3. Why do organisms that perform sexual reproduction need cells produced through meiosis?

4. Suppose you got hungry once you got home from school, and decided to
microwave up some Tostinos Pizza Rolls. You accidentally microwaved them
for too long, and end up burning your tongue from the boiling lava hot pizza
sauce.
a.) Which type of cell division would your tongue cells go through,
meiosis or mitosis?

b.) Explain why your tongue cells would go through the type of cell division that you
chose.

Real World Connections

Read the following prompt, and then answer the questions below it.
Feel free to highlight or underline.
Malaria is a parasite that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. In the United
States, malaria is almost non-existent, but in hot and humid Africa the parasite is
everywhere. Mosquitoes carry the parasite from person to person, and it wriggles
through the blood stream to infest the persons liver.

AA

Over millions of years, people of African descent have evolved a natural defense to
malaria. A recessive allele, known as the sickle cell allele, causes a persons blood cells
to become resistant to malaria infection if the person is heterozygous. These
individuals are known as sickle cell carriers.

Aa

This malaria resistance comes at a price, though. A person born with a homozygous
recessive genotype will have sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is a problem because
the blood cells are no longer able to flow through blood vessels particularly
capillaries easily. This leads to a decrease in energy, and possibly death from heart
problems. People that have sickle cell anemia have to get medical treatment early in life,
or they rarely live past age 30.

aa

To the right you can see the phenotypes of each sickle cell genotype. AA grows normal,
healthy blood cells.
1. What genotype gives the sickle cell trait (carrier)? _____ _____
2. What genotype gives sickle cell anemia (disease)? _____ _____
3. Below are four couples of African ancestry. They have taken genetics tests to determine if their offspring might
receive the sickle cell allele. For each couple, do the following actions:
a. Draw a heart on the couple of they have 0% chance to produce a child with sickle cell alleles.
b. Draw a circle around the couple if they have a chance to produce a child thats a sickle cell carrier.
c. Draw a sad face over the couple if they have a chance to produce a child with sickle cell anemia.
***HINT!: Drawing Punnett Squares will be extremely useful!

Genotypes
Mom: AA
Dad: aa

Genotypes
Mom: Aa
Dad: AA

Genotypes
Mom: AA
Dad: AA

Genotypes
Mom: Aa
Dad: Aa

4. How is the heterozygous form of sickle cell trait work differently than other heterozygous genotypes weve
discussed?

5. Huntingtons disease is also carried in peoples genes (and occurs across all races). Huntingtons disease is linked to
a dominant allele. Knowing this, what two genotypes could a person have that would give them the Huntingtons
disease phenotype?