Lake Nona High School : BIO 1101 Gizmos Student Exploration: Food Chain_answered (2022)

Name: Date: Format all responses in blue bold font. Student Exploration: Food Chain Vocabulary (refer to vocab file located on the Gizmo site for definitions): consumer, ecosystem, energy pyramid, equilibrium, food chain, population, predator, prey, producer Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) The Food Chain Gizmo™ shows a food chain with hawks, snakes, rabbits, and grass. In this simulation, the hawks eat snakes, the snakes eat rabbits, and the rabbits eat grass. 1. Producers are organisms that do not need to eat other organisms to obtain energy. A. Which organism is a producer in this food chain? The grass provides food for the other organism. B. Where does the producer get its energy? The producer receives its energy from photosynthesis. 2. Consumers must eat other organisms for energy. Which organisms are consumers in this food chain? The rabbit, snakes and hawks. Gizmo Warm-up The SIMULATION pane of the Gizmo shows the current population, or number, of each organism in the food chain. 1. What are the current populations of each organism? Hawks: 34 Snakes: 230 Rabbits: 2070 Grass: 2. Select the BAR CHART tab