'You & The Food Chain' Biology Worksheet printable pdf download

Name: _________________________

Date: __________________________

Hour: 2A

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OOD

HAIN

ASSIGNMENT OBJECTIVE

To analyze a meal in order to make a map of all the food chains that connect you to your favorite

food(s).

INTRODUCTION

Humans are consumers. No consumer can survive without eating other living things. Every day we

have breakfast, lunch and dinner and eat numerous numbers of organisms during these meals

though we barely stop to think about them. The vegetables and fruits you eat are made from

plants. Any animal or animal products you eat are made from animals AND the plants or animals

they ate in order to make their own bodies. By eating these organisms we become links in many

food chains.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Pick one of your favorite recipes, it can anything from a breakfast to dinner food. Do not

choose highly processed foods (e.g. candy bars, sodas, store bought cookies). Choose only

foods made primarily from whole ingredients that you can recognize.

2. FOOD SOURCE CHART

For each food (e.g. French fries), make a food source chart to list all

of the plant and animals sources that went into making the food (e.g. potatoes, black pepper

and corn – include corn because of the corn oil used to fry the potatoes but leave out the salt

because it does not come from a living source).

Example: Food Source Charts

French fries

Food 1:

Food 2:

Food 3:

_____________________

____________________

_____________________

Animal

Plant Source

Animal Source

Plant Source

Source

potato

corn

black pepper

3. FOOD CHAINS MAP After making your charts, make a personal food chains map to link your

foods to you using food chains constructed from the food sources you listed in your chart.

Remember, for the animals that you eat, you will have to include their food sources as well.

Below is an example to guide you. Draw each group of food chains from one food in a

different color than the group of food chains from the other foods. Your food chains map

should be organized like the one below, though it will probably look much more complicated.

'You & The Food Chain' Biology Worksheet

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