How can you model a food web? MiniLab LESSON 3: 20 minutes C21L3

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Date
Class
C21L3
MiniLab
LESSON 3: 20 minutes
How can you model a food web?
Populations interact through feeding relationships. A food web shows overlapping feeding
relationships in a community.
Procedure
1. Read and complete a lab safety form.
2. On a sheet of paper, make a list of at
least 10 different organisms within a
community of your choice. Include a
variety of producers and consumers.
3. Use scissors to cut out the name of
4. Glue the names onto a piece of
construction paper.
5. Use yarn and glue to connect
organisms that have feeding
relationships. For example, a piece of
yarn would connect a rabbit and grass.
each organism on your list.
Analyze and Conclude
1. Use Models Add the label Sun to your model. Which organisms would be connected to
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the Sun?
2. Infer Imagine that you removed three organisms from your food web. How would this
affect the community?
3.
Key Concept Which organisms in your model interact through feeding
relationships?
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