LET’S TRY ONE
In this web, grass → rabbit, grass → mouse, and mouse → owl. Which organism directly receives energy from the mouse?
owl
The stated mouse → owl link ends at the owl.
Learning steps & teaching tips
Use a supplied food web to trace direct feeding links without inventing a population prediction.
- Name what the arrows represent before reading the web.
- Trace the requested direct link or complete path.
- Separate a feeding link from an untested prediction about population size.
Try it together
Draw a four-organism web with labelled arrows. Ask a partner to trace two energy paths and identify a prediction the diagram alone cannot prove.
Read each arrow as energy moving from the food to its eater; use only the links given.