Herbivores -Primary Consumers Navada Buckmoth Darkling Beetle SW Plateau Lizards Apache Pocket Mouse Kangaroo Rat Desert Cottontail Jackrabbit Caterpillar Desert Biome - Create a Food Chain Medium Predators - Tertiary Consumers Carnivores Omnivores Bobcat Coyote Badger Kit Fox Small Predators - Secondary Consumers Carnivores Insectivores Tarantula Scorpion Spadefoot Toad Roadrunner Chihuanhuan Raven Diamondback Rattlesnake Plants- Producers Cottonwood Soaptree Yucca Skunkbush Sumac Wild Grasses Annual Flowers Decomposers Soil Bacteria Nematodes Protozoans Fungi White Sands National Monument National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior White Sands National Memorial Revised 12/19/2015
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Herbivores -Primary Consumers
Navada Buckmoth Darkling Beetle SW Plateau Lizards Apache Pocket Mouse Kangaroo Rat Desert Cottontail Jackrabbit Caterpillar
Desert Biome - Create a Food ChainMedium Predators - Tertiary ConsumersCarnivoresOmnivores
Bobcat Coyote Badger Kit Fox Small Predators - Secondary ConsumersCarnivoresInsectivores Tarantula Scorpion Spadefoot Toad Roadrunner Chihuanhuan Raven Diamondback Rattlesnake
Plants- Producers
Cottonwood Soaptree Yucca Skunkbush Sumac Wild Grasses Annual Flowers
Decomposers
Soil Bacteria Nematodes Protozoans Fungi
White Sands National Monument National Park ServiceU.S. Department of the Interior
White Sands National Memorial
Revised 12/19/2015
Herbivores -Primary Consumers
Insects Lizards Apache Pocket Mouse Kangaroo Rat Desert Cottontail Jackrabbit
Food Web in a Desert BiomeMedium Predators - Tertiary ConsumersCarnivoresOmnivores
Bobcat Coyote Badger Kit Fox Small Predators - Secondary ConsumersCarnivoresInsectivores
Tarantulas Scorpions Toads Birds Snakes
Plants -Producers
Cottonwood Soaptree Yucca Skunkbush Sumac Wild Grasses Annual Flowers
Decomposers
Soil Bacteria Nematodes Protozoans Fungi
Food Chains
A food chain is a series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
Consumers are organisms that cannotharness energy directly from the physical environment.
Consumers• Herbivores eat only plants.• Carnivores eat only animals.• Omnivores eat plants and animals.• Insectivores eat only insects.• Decomposers break down organic matter.
These include bacteria and fungi.
Most animals are part of more than one food chain and eat more than one kind of food in order to meet their food and energy requirements.
A change in the size of one population in a food chain will affect other populations.
This interdependence within a food chain helps to maintain the balance of plant and animal populations within a ecosystem.
These interconnected food chains form a food web. A food web links all the food chains in an ecosystem together.
White Sands National Monument National Park ServiceU.S. Department of the Interior
White Sands National Memorial
Revised 12/19/2015
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