Food Chains and Food Webs Activity Worksheets

In this 9-page activity, students will explore food chains, food webs, energy pyramids, trophic levels, energy flow, producers, consumers, decomposers, autotrophs, heterotrophs, and all the vocabulary terms associated with these concepts. I have included this activity in a traditional printable format as well as a paperless digital format for use in Google Drive, Google Classroom, and/or Microsoft OneDrive.

This resource includes:

• Editable and Printable 9-Page Student Handout (50 Questions)
• Colorful diagrams and illustrations.
• 3-Pages of pictures to use in cut and paste activities
• Critical thinking and problem solving activities
• 9-Page teacher guide with tips, suggestions, and complete answer key.
• Paperless Digital Version with drag and drop images for use in Google Drive, Google Classroom, and/or Microsoft OneDrive.
• Teacher User Guide for Google Apps

Perfect for students in grades 8 - 10.

What concepts are covered?

• Producers and consumers: Students will define terms and provide examples of producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers.
• Students will complete a "cut and paste" activity where they sort 15 organisms into the following categories: producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers.
• Food Chains: Given a diagram of a food chain, students will answer a series of critical thinking and problem solving questions. Students will identify the producer, the primary consumer, the secondary consumer, the tertiary consumer and the quaternary consumer.
• The importance of decomposers in the food chain.
• Students will sort 24 organisms into 6 different food chains: Ocean, woodland, salt marsh, arctic, desert, and freshwater pond. Students must place the organism in the correct food chain and in the correct order.
• Food Webs: Students will use a diagram of a food web to answer a series of questions.
• The difference between food chains and food webs.
• Detritivores and decomposers.
• Autotrophs and heterotrophs.
• Students will design a complex food web by cutting and pasting 15 different organisms into a freshwater pond ecosystem. The student will connect the organisms by drawing arrows between them.
• Energy Flow Through the Ecosystem: Students will read a short passage and answer higher level thinking questions.
• Students will use a diagram of an energy pyramid and answer a series of questions.
• Trophic levels, energy transfer, energy loss.
• Students will calculate how many Calories of energy are passed to each trophic level.
• Students will draw and design a food pyramid of their choice.

This is a NO PREP activity. Everything you need is included. You only have to duplicate the pages and pass them out to your students.

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