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    Name Class Date

    Skills Worksheet

    Food Chains and Food Webs


    INTERPRETING GRAPHICS
    Use the figure below, which shows the food web of an aquatic ecosystem,
    to complete items 1–7.

    Killer whale
    Crabeater seal Elephant seal

    Adelie
    penguin Squid

    Leopard seal

    Cod

    Small animals
    Algae and protists
    Krill

    In the food web above, there are eight food chains that include krill. In the space
    provided, identify all of the organisms in the order in which they occur in four of
    these eight food chains.

    1. Chain 1 _____________________________________________________________

    2. Chain 2 _____________________________________________________________

    3. Chain 3 _____________________________________________________________

    4. Chain 4 _____________________________________________________________

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    Food Chains and Food Webs continued

    Read each question about the food web on the previous page, and write your
    answer in the space provided.
    5. What organisms do cod eat?

    6. List all the organisms that eat squid.

    7. How many producers are in the food web? Name them.

    Use the figures below, which show trophic levels in an ecosystem, to complete
    items 8–11.

    Done by Counting Organisms Done by Weighing Done by Measuring the Calories


    at Each Level Organisms at Each Level Stored at Each Level
    First-level
    First-level First-level
    carnivores
    carnivores carnivores

    Herbivores Herbivores Herbivores

    Marine Marine Marine


    plankton plankton plankton

    A B C
    Study the three pyramids above. In the space provided, identify which pyramid is
    the most accurate indicator of each item below by writing the correct letter (A–C )
    in the space provided.

    ______ 8. number of individual organisms

    ______ 9. measurement of productivity

    ______10. measurement of biomass


    11. Which pyramid is the most accurate indicator of the amount of energy
    available at each trophic level? Explain.

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    TEACHER RESOURCE PAGE

    Energy Transfer Food Chains and


    INTERPRETING DATA Food Webs
    1. food chain A: corn—10,000 kcal; INTERPRETING GRAPHICS
    human vegetarians—1,000 kcal; food 1–4. Answers may include any of the
    chain B: corn—10,000 kcal; cattle— following food chains:
    1,000 kcal; human meat eaters— Chain 1—algae, krill, Adelie penguin,
    100 kcal leopard seal, killer whale
    2. Because 90 percent of the energy from Chain 2—algae, krill, cod, leopard
    one trophic level never makes it to the seal, killer whale
    next level, there is rarely enough Chain 3—algae, small animals and pro-
    energy available to sustain a fifth level. tists, krill, crabeater seal, killer whale
    3.Some energy is lost as heat, and some is Chain 4—algae, small animals and pro-
    used up in cellular respiration. tists, krill, Adelie penguin, killer whale
    4. Activity increases the required Chain 5—algae, small animals and pro-
    kcal/hour by about 62 percent. Plant tists, krill, crabeater seal, leopard seal,
    foods would be a more efficient diet; killer whale
    a vegetarian diet provides 10 times as Chain 6—algae, krill, crabeater seal,
    much energy as a meat diet. leopard seal, killer whale
    5. Because humans have access to 10 Chain 7—algae, krill, crabeater seal,
    times as much energy when their diet killer whale
    consists of grains rather than meat, Chain 8—algae, krill, Adelie penguin,
    eating foods that are low on the food killer whale
    chain could allow people to get more 5. krill, algae, small animals, and protists
    energy from less food. 6. leopard seal, killer whale, and elephant
    seal
    7. one; algae
    8. A
    9. C
    10. B
    11. B; each higher level on the pyramid
    contains only 10 percent of the
    biomass found in the trophic level
    below it. Ecologists measure biomass
    to determine the amount of energy
    present in a trophic level.

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