Activity: Constructing A Food Web M. Stafford. Food Chains and Food Webs Food chain – a series of organisms that transfer food (energy) between trophic.

Activity: Constructing A Food Web

M. Stafford

Food Chains and Food Webs

• Food chain – a series of organisms that transfer food (energy) between trophic levels

Oak beauty

House Wren

Cooper’s Hawk

• Food web - a network of food chains representing the feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem

Muhlenbergia Deer Grass

Quercus

Black Oak

Construct a Food Web

• Acorn Woodpecker• Plain Titmouse• Black Bear• Coyote• Mountain Lion • Mule Deer• Cottontail• Cooper’s Hawk• Turkey Vulture• Oak weevil• Insects• Black-throated Gray Warbler

Bald Eagle

Chinook Salmon

Roadrunner

Western Fence Lizard

California Ground Squirrel

Deer Grass

Valley Oak

Timber Rattlesnake

Bald Eagle

Chinook Salmon

Roadrunner

Western Fence Lizard

California Ground Squirrel

Deer Grass

Valley Oak

Timber Rattlesnake

Common Kingsnake

Deer Grass (Muhlenbergia)

Valley Oak (Quercus)

Oak weevil and other insects

Gall Wasp

Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes)

Plain Titmouse (Parus)

Coyote (Canus)

California Ground Squirrel(Ottospermophilos)

Mountain Lion (Felis)

Mule Deer (Odocoileus)

Cottontail (Sylvalagus)

Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter)

Black throated gray warbler

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Black Bear (Ursus)

Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus)

Common King Snake (Lampropeltis)

Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus)

Roadrunner (Geococcyx)

Turkey Vulture (Carthartes)

Chinook Salmon (Salmo)

Rules for your Food Web

• Arrows point the way energy flows

• Color Key– Producers – Green– Primary consumers – red– Secondary consumers – blue– Tertiary consumers – purple– Scavengers - yellow