Tonight's homework is to complete Assignment 22 and work on the biomes mini-project.
Assignment
#22 - Ecosystem
Roles Review Questions
Answer all of the
following questions to the best of your ability. Use your notes as a reference.
Write in complete sentences for all
short answer questions.
1. Use the following
information to construct a food web
in a meadow ecosystem:
·
Red foxes feed
on raccoons, crayfishes, grasshoppers, red clover, meadow voles, and gray
squirrels
·
Red clover is
eaten by grasshoppers, muskrats, red foxes, and meadow voles
·
Meadow voles,
gray squirrels, and raccoons all eat parts of the white oak tree
·
Crayfishes
feed on green algae and detritus, and they are eaten by muskrats and red foxes
·
Raccoons feed
on muskrats, meadow voles, gray squirrels, and white oak trees
NOTE: Some (not all!) of the organisms have been
started for you. Add the rest of the organisms and then use arrows to show the
flow of energy between organisms.
Red fox
White oak Red clover
2. Create a table and
identify all of the herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and detritivores in the
food web/ecosystem.
3. Which of the members in
the food web has the most biomass? Explain why.
4. Describe how the muskrats would be affected if disease kills the
white oak trees.
