1. Grassland Food Web Your job is to color and create a food web and a food chain. Follow this packet and use the checklists to create your webs/chains. Step 1: Cut out your animals for your food from the food web page. Step 2: Draw the way the energy cycles. *Remember that the arrows end at the organism that got the energy! (See example) * Remember that a food web should make a circle or a web.

2. Step 3: Cut out your animals for your food from the food Chain page. Step 4: Draw the way the energy moves. *Remember that the arrows end at the organism that got the energy! *Your food chain should not be a circle, it should be a straight line! Step 5: Answer the questions below. What does a food chain show? _________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ What does a food web show? ___________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ How are a food web and a food chain different? _____________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ What is a predator? ____________________________________________________________ What is an omnivore? ___________________________________________________________ Why do you think it is important to know about how energy moves throughout an ecosystem? _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Mouse Hawk

3. Grassland Food Web Hints Grass uses the sun to make its food. Rabbits, mice, worms, and grasshoppers eat vegetation (grass). Snakes eat mice, grasshoppers, and rabbits. Hawks eat rabbits, snakes, and mice. Worms get energy from absorbing decomposing/dead animals.

4. Grassland Food Web Snake Grasshopper Hawk Grass Rabbit Mouse Sun Worm

5. Grassland Food Chain Rabbit Snake Hawk Grass