Consumers & Feeding Roles

PREDATOR PRAIRIE · CHOMPLING

Consumers & Feeding Roles

Grasshopper Glade

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Chompling — Consumers & Feeding Roles Grasshopper Glade

Hi!

I'm Chompling.

Welcome to Grasshopper Glade!

Will you help me investigate consumers & feeding roles?

The Grumblies have mixed up our clues.

Let's check the evidence!

Consumers eat other organisms or their materials.

Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat animals, and omnivores eat both.

Which animal is an omnivore in the table?

  • A. Animal B
  • B. Neither despite A eating both
  • C. Animal A

The answer is C: Animal A

Our table shows Animal A eating seeds and insects,

while Animal B eats only grasses in the supplied record.

A is an omnivore in this model;

B is a herbivore.

That clue helps us make sense of this place.

Diet records provide evidence for a feeding role.

An animal's size or friendly appearance does not reliably identify its diet.

Which diet matches a herbivore?

  • A. Only fungi and animals
  • B. Plants
  • C. Only animals

The answer is B: Plants

Consumers eat other organisms or their materials.

Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat animals, and omnivores eat both.

Hmm...

how does that connect to our first clue?

Our table shows Animal A eating seeds and insects,

while Animal B eats only grasses in the supplied record.

A is an omnivore in this model;

B is a herbivore.

What should guide our classification?

  • A. Recorded diet
  • B. How friendly the animal looks
  • C. Its body size alone

The answer is A: Recorded diet

Diet records provide evidence for a feeding role.

An animal's size or friendly appearance does not reliably identify its diet.

Nice investigating!

You've been following the evidence.

Let's bring our clues together before the adventure.

Consumers eat other organisms or their materials.

Diet records provide evidence for a feeding role.

Our table shows Animal A eating seeds and insects,

while Animal B eats only grasses in the supplied record.

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