Hungry Jungle

What happened to the animals?

Forest species = 36 Impacted species = 21

Today

• Groups of 4.• Each group gets: – Large sheet of felt– Organism cards– Arrows– Activity sheet

• Task: To as a group figure out a way to illustrate what organisms eat what in the jungle.

Food Chain

• Food chains show the transfer of energy from one organism to the next.

• Each level is called a trophic level.

Trophic Levels

• Indicates the position that the organism occupies in the food chain.

• The levels are numbered according to how far the particular organism is along the chain.– the primary producer (1), to

herbivores (2), to predators (3), to carnivores or top carnivores (4 or 5).

Disturbed Food Chain

• Any disturbance affects the whole food chain.

• What happens if the top predator is eliminated?

Food Web

• A more complex system of multiple food chains.

• Many interactions.

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My Research

• Why may I have found more species in the forest and not in the impacted places?

• Importance of conservation.