Pond Water Food Chain

Name: ______________________________Date: _________________________ Block: _____

In this activity, you will be creating your own food chains using the Life in a Pond cards.

Step 1: Use a pencil crayon to colour code each of your Life in a Pond cards. The colour code is below:

Green: Producers Red: CarnivoresYellow: Herbivores Orange: Omnivores

Step 2: Cut apart the Life in a Pond cards and use them to create food chains. Remember, each food chain must start with a producer! Once you are satisfied with your food chains, glue them down on a piece of paper and draw arrows showing the flow of energy.

Step 3: For your longest food chain, label the trophic level and whether it is a primary/secondary/tertiary producer/consumer.

Bonus: Step 4: Draw more arrows between your separate food chains, creating a food web.

Once finished, answer the following questions:

1. What would happen to your food chain if the producers died out because of pollution?

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2. What would happen to your food chain of the top consumer’s population were to double?

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3. For your food chain with the tadpole in it, imagine that a new species of fish was introduced that eats tadpoles, and has no known predators that eat it. How would the introduction of this species affect your food chain? Hint: your answer should have the word “competition” in it!

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Life in a Pond Cards