Pond

Water
Webs

Group 6
Diet: Diet: Deer Diet:
Snake Small
Fishes
1. Which organisms are
the producers?
The producers are seaweed and
phytoplankton. Phytoplankton is also
known as microalgae. They provide food
for a wide range of sea creatures
including whales, shrimps, snails, and
jellyfish.
2. Identify the consumers
using these letters
C – Carnivore
O – Omnivore
H - Herbivore
2. Identify the consumers
using these letters
Carnivores are animals that get food
from killing and eating other animals.
The carnivores that we identified from
the given food web are the fishes, crabs,
lobsters, whelks and gulls. Omnivores
are kinds of animals that eat either other
animals or plants.
2. Identify the consumers
using these letters
Herbivores are animals or insects that
only eat vegetation, such as grasses,
fruits, leaves, vegetables, roots and
bulbs. The herbivores that we identified
from the food web are the prawns,
mussels, and limpets.
3. Answer these questions about the
food web above

a.What would happen to the limpet

population if the mussels were to die
due to a disease?
- Nothing will happen because
mussels are not included to the food
limpets eat.
3. Answer these questions about the
food web above
b. How would the zooplankton be
affected if the fish population were to
increase
- The zooplankton will decrease
because they are the food of prawns
and the prawns are the food of fishes.
3. Answer these questions about the
food web above

c.How would the whelk population be

affected if crabs were removed?
- The whelk population will not be
affected because they are not included
in the food the crabs eat.
4. Cut apart the Life in a Pond
cards and sort them into three
categories: producers,
consumers, and decomposers.
Create four food chains in the
space below. Remember, each
food chain must start with a
producer!
ADDITIONAL INFO:
Categories or kinds of food web:
Source Web – one or more node(s), all of
their predators, all the food these
predators eat, and so on.
Sink Web – one or more node(s), all of
their prey, all the food that these prey
eat, and so on
Community Web – a group of nodes and
all the connections of who eats whom.
Energy Flow Web – quantified fluxes of
energy between nodes along links
between a resource and a consumer.
Paleoecological Web – a web that
reconstructs ecosystems from the fossil
record
Functional Web – emphasizes the functional
significance of certain connections having
strong interactions and greater bearing on
community organization, more so than
energy flow pathways.
Node in a food web might include parasites,
decomposers, microbes, saprotophs,
consumers, or predators, each containing
many species in a web that can otherwise
be connected to other trophic species.