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The
Food Chain that
Nature Built
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The
House That Jack Built
by Simms Tayback
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Read the
book "The House That Jack Built" to set your creative thoughts
in motion. Next imagine a food chain, and illustrate each step.
Finally,
write a rhyme patterned after "The House That Jack Built" to
show the chain of events that connects the trophic levels of your food
chain.
Here is
a sample food chain you can use (but it’s even better to come
up with your own!)
- The sun
shone on a field and the grass grew.
- A deer
dined on the grass that the sun grew.
- A mosquito
bit the deer that dined on the grass that the sun grew.
- A hummingbird
ate the mosquito that bit the deer that dined on the grass that the
sun grew.
- A crow
killed the hummingbird that ate the mosquito that bit the deer that
dined on the grass that the sun grew.
- A falcon
swallowed the crow that killed the hummingbird that ate the mosquito
that bit the deer that dined on the grass that the sun grew.
- A cougar
conquered the falcon that swallowed the crow that killed the hummingbird
that ate the mosquito that bit the deer that dined on the grass that
the sun grew.
- The cougar
died and a...
Some
Terminology:
- Ecologists
call the path of food consumption a "food chain."
- Each
level of consumption in a food chain is called a "trophic level."
- The word "trophic" comes
from a Greek word meaning "to nourish."
- To find
an animal's place in the food chain, count the number of energy-transfer
steps from the sun to the animal.
National
Science Education Standards
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