Virtual Research Cruise: Sampling Zooplankton Food Web Activity Answer Key Food Web Key: Grades 2-5 A simple food web with at least 2 food chains Osprey Bald Eagle I hunt in fish-filled I nest in forested areas lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, and wetlands. I near large lakes and like to build my nest on rivers. I often soar in the high man-made sky to search for my food. I eat fish, mammals, birds, structures. I dive into the water to frogs, snakes, lizards, and catch fish. dead animals. Adult Westslope Cutthroat Trout I live in the cold, clear water of lakes, streams, and rivers. I eat aquatic insects and smaller fish. Juvenile Trout I live in lakes, streams, and rivers. I like to hide in the pools and side channels of rivers and streams. I eat aquatic insect larvae, baby fish, and zooplankton. Cladocerans - Zooplankton Copepods - Zooplankton I live in lakes, ponds, streams, I live in lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, and wetland areas. You rivers, and wetland areas. You need to use a microscope to see need to use a microscope to see me. me. I mostly eat phytoplankton and I mostly eat phytoplankton bacteria. and bacteria . Phytoplankton I am a diatom (microscopic algae) that floats and drifts with the water currents. I use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to build sugar for myself through photosynthesis. 2021 Created by FLARE: Flathead Lake Aquatic Research and Education Program at the Flathead Lake Biological Station. All food web images were illustrated by Holly Church. Virtual Research Cruise: Sampling Zooplankton Food Web Key: Grades 6-12 Example food web. You may have additional or different feeding connections 2021 Created by FLARE: Flathead Lake Aquatic Research and Education Program at the Flathead Lake Biological Station. All food web images were illustrated by Holly Church. .