Tabizi Pythons and Clendro Hawks

Name ______

Objective: Use imaginary organisms to describe relationships as they occur in food webs and explore how short and long term environmental changes affect populations of organisms.

Directions: Cut out the 12 organism cards and create a food web below. 1. List the producers in your food web.

a. ______

b. ______

c. ______

2. List the herbivores in your food web.

a. ______

b. ______

c. ______

d. ______

3. List the carnivores in your food web.

a. ______

b. ______

c. ______

d. ______

4. List the scavenger in your food web.

a. ______

5. List 4 predator-prey relationships:

a. ______

b. ______

c. ______

d. ______

Events: 1. A terrible drought occurs in this ecosystem. Due to the disaster, most of the grasses dry up and die. Which organisms would be most affected by this and why? ______

2. A rumor circulates among the native people that the teeth of the Bronilla bear can cure baldness. This triggers increased hunting of the animal. How would this affect the food web? ______

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3. Until recently, natives killed the Clendro hawk for their tail feathers. They have stopped this practice after animal rights groups complained about it. How would this affect the food web? ______

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4. A Rahpsheraga comes in contact with some local farmers. The farmers begin hunting the Rahpsheraga in large numbers to protect their herds. How would this affect the food web? ______

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5. People have discovered how tasty the fruits of the Neumelinda tree are and have begun spraying them with pesticides. The pesticides are causing the eggs of the Tukatume to become too fragile and their babies are dying. What affect would this have on the Tukatume population and how would it affect the food web? ______

6. A disease, spread by farmer’s livestock, begins to kill off the Pluplenra. How would this affect the food web? ______

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Quadralupa Neumelinda Pedreaucus

Flowering plants that produce Large, leafy tree that produces A long, green species of grass. bright, red flowers with four Neumelinda fruits. petals.

Minedra Tukatume Rahpsheraga Small rodents that burrow. Small, wild birds that perch on Part of the big cat family. They They eat roots of grass and trees to eat. They drink the eat rodents, like Pluplenra and fruits. Their predators are the nectar from the blossoms of Vulumadai. These are apex Tabizi python, the Clendro Neumelinda trees. Their main predators and have no real hawk, and the Rahpsheraga. predator is the Tabizi python. predators.

Pluplenra Bronilla Bear Halati

A species of antelope that lives Small yellow and brown A small, ferocious species of in the open. They eat grasses mammals that are not really sloth. They eat Pluplenra, and other flowering plants. bears. They eat the delicious Bronilla bears, and Tabizi Their predator is the stems of the Quadralupa plant. pythons. Their predator is the Rahpsheraga. Their predator is the Rahpsheraga. Rahpsheraga.

Tabizi Python Vulumadai Clendro Hawk

Constrictor snake. They eat Small canines. They are Small hawks that nest in trees. birds and small rodents. Their scavengers that will eat any They eat rodents like Minedra. predators are mainly Halati. animal. Their predator is the Their predator is the Tabizi Rahpsheraga. python.