All About Food Chains & Food Webs!

Have you ever wondered what's the difference between a food web and a food chain? Will these links help you find the answer? Lets begin to explore:

1. Look at these food webs in different areas of our planet. Click here to explore.
2. Let's build our own food chain. Click on EcoKids to learn how.
3. Play this food chain game on Kid's Corner. Are you able to label all the parts?
4. Watch this Harcourt (414) video of an Antarctic Ocean Food Web.
5. Want to learn how energy is transferred in a food Pyramid? Click on this Harcourt (314) video to learn.
6. Click on this link to see what happens to a food web/chain when you increase or decrease a population of a species.
7.  Select this link to complete the food chain puzzles - by Zephyrus.
8. Go to this Scholastic Web Site to build your own food web.

Were you able to solve the mystery between a food web and a food chain? Maybe you need to keep exploring. Create a Venn Diagram in your journal to compare and contrast the two.

Vocabulary: Producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, decomposer, predator, prey