🐟 Part 1: Understanding Food Chains

1. What is a food chain?

A chain made of food

A way to show what eats what in nature

A type of fishing net

2. In an aquatic food chain, what do the arrows show?

The direction animals swim

The flow of energy from one organism to another

Where animals live

3. Which of these are producers in aquatic environments? (Tick all that apply)

Algae

Seaweed

Small fish

Water plants

4. Complete this simple food chain:

Algae → _________________ → Large fish

🌊 Part 2: Create Your Food Web

5. Draw your own aquatic food web in the box below. Include at least 5 different organisms and use arrows to show the flow of energy. Label each organism.

6. Choose one organism from your food web and explain what would happen if it disappeared:

7. Fill in the blanks using these words: predator, prey, consumer, producer

A _________________ makes its own food using sunlight.

A _________________ eats other living things.

A _________________ hunts and eats other animals.

A _________________ is hunted and eaten by other animals.

🤔 Part 3: Thinking About Connections

8. How is a food web different from a food chain?

9. Why are aquatic plants important in underwater ecosystems?

They look pretty

They provide food and oxygen for other organisms

They make the water warmer

10. Name one way humans can help protect aquatic food webs:

Aquatic Food Web Diagram

Aquatic Food Web Diagram

🐟 Part 1: Understanding Food Chains

🌊 Part 2: Create Your Food Web

🤔 Part 3: Thinking About Connections

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