
Mystery Science Food Chains
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Katie Wilson
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He loves growing all sorts of plants in it that he can eat. Lettuce is one of his favorite things to eat from his garden.
Ezequiel has a garden.
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A few weeks after the parsley started to grow, Ezequiel looked out his window. There were more birds in his garden than he had ever seen before! He went outside to see why so many birds had flown in.
Recently, Ezequiel decided to start growing parsley in his garden.
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Multiple Choice
Why did so many robins come to Ezequiel's garden when he planted parsley? The food chain you made and the information you read might help you explain why this happened.
Robins like to eat parsley, so when the robins smelled the parsley, they came to Ezequiel's garden to eat it.
Robins don't eat parsley, but they like the smell of it. When the robins smelled the parsley, it attracted them to Ezequiel's garden.
The parsley attracted swallowtail caterpillars. The swallowtail caterpillars eat the parsley, and the robins eat the swallowtail caterpillars.
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Choose true or false for the questions that follow.
If Ezequiel wants to get rid of the swallowtail caterpillars in his garden, what should he do?
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Before Ezequiel could do anything more to change his garden, he found a new problem. Something was digging tunnels under all of the plants! He went back to his gardening book, and he found this about an animal that digs tunnels:
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Multiple Choice
Ezequiel wants parsley. Will the gophers help him have more parsley? Look back to the food chains you’ve made to help answer this question.
Yes, because gophers don't eat parsley and will leave the plants alone.
No, because the gophers will eat the parsley plants. There will be less (or none) left for Ezequiel.
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Multiple Choice
Ezequiel wants to get rid of the swallowtail caterpillars. Will the gophers help him get rid of the swallowtail caterpillars?
Yes, because the gophers eat parsley. If the gophers eat the parsley, the swallowtail caterpillars won’t have anything left to eat for themselves.
No, because gophers don't have anything to do with the caterpillars.
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Match
Match the following words and definitions.
an animal that is hunted by and eaten by another animal
an animal that only eats plants
an animal that eats only other animals
an animal that eats both plants and animals
an animal that hunts and eats other animals
prey
herbivore
carnivore
omnivore
predator
prey
herbivore
carnivore
omnivore
predator
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Match
Match each word with its picture example.
consumer
producer
food chain
food web
consumer
producer
food chain
food web
He loves growing all sorts of plants in it that he can eat. Lettuce is one of his favorite things to eat from his garden.
Ezequiel has a garden.
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