Biology Hierarchy Quiz

Ecology Interactive Activities Answer Sheet

Name ______Date ______Period _____

Biology Hierarchy Quiz (Don’t print it just write it below) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Make a Food Web Top Level carnivores ______Secondary carnivores______Carnivores______Herbivores ______Producers ______

Follow a water droplet :

Chain Reaction : 1. What are people called? 2. What do adult frogs eat and what does that make them? 3. Name an herbivore: 4. Choose a food chain and complete it- write the correct results below:

______→______→ ______→ ______→ ______→ ______

Biomagnification: 1. Which feeding strategy helps the bird last the longest? 2. Which feeding strategy kills the bird right away? 3. How does biomagnification impact the safety of seafood? How can humans who eat clams and fish minimize their exposure to chemicals such as mercury?

Rabbits and Foxes Food Chain Add 1,000 rabbits, 40 foxes, and 20,000 plants- and PLAY- 1. What happens at 6 years? 2. What happened at 15 years? 3. Let it run out- to the end…Do the foxes ever come back- why? Or why not?

Add 100 foxes, 6500 rabbits, 160,000 plants - Let it run all the way out - While its running go into graph mode, and watch the lines develop- 1. The lines representing what organism seem to follow each other? Explain why that might be….

Ligers Article and Pictures 1. Is the mother a lion or tiger? 2. Where do most lions live? Where do most tigers live? 3. How fast can it run? 4. How much does it weigh at 3 years old? 5. From looking at pictures, how tall would you estimate the Liger is ?

Youtube: Liger and Tigon

1. Ligers are the results of human directed ______. 2. Why wouldn’t Ligers do well in the wild? 3. How much do ligers weigh?

Tigon Article : 1. Why are tigons, rarer than ligers? 2. Why are many tigon cubs stillborn or premature? 3. With a tigon cub, which is the mom, and which is the dad?