Worksheet+and+Food+Web

=Completed Worksheet and Food Web=

ENY 3007 Pond Collection Sheet Specimen name || Order Name || Mouth adaptation || Leg Adaptation || Metamorphosis || Feeding Group || damselfly, dragonfly || Odonata || chewing || cursorial || hemimetabolis || carnivore || fish || ||  ||   ||   ||  omnivore || roly-poly || Isopoda || chewing || cursorial || || herbivore || giant water bug || Hemiptera || piercing, sucking || natatorial || hemimetabolis || carnivore || gnat || Diptera || piercing, sucking || cursorial || holometabolis || herbivore || tadpole, frog || Anura || || none, saltatorial || || omnivore, carnivore || mosquito || Diptera || piercing, sucking || cursorial || holometabolis || carnivore (blood) || spider || Araneae || chelicera || cursorial || || carnivore || midge larva || Diptera || ||  ||  holometabolis || omnivore (decay) || grasshopper || Orthoptera || chewing || saltatorial || hemimetabolis || herbivore || fire ant || Hymenoptera || chewing || cursorial || holometabolis || omnivore || snail || ||  ||   ||   ||  herbivore || water mite || || piercing, sucking || ||  ||  carnivore (blood) || scud || Amphipoda || chewing || natatorial || || omnivore (decay) || beetle || Coleoptera || chewing || fossorial || holometabolis || herbivore || alligator || Crocodilia || ||  ||   ||  carnivore || anole || Squamata || ||  ||   ||  carnivore || whirligig || Coleoptera || chewing || natatorial || holometabolis || carnivore || Metamorphosis Key = Inc. = Hemimetabolous, Com. = Holometabolous Feeding Groups = Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore __ Pond: __ A small body of fresh water shallow enough for sunlight to reach the bottom and for rooted plants to grow. __ Invertebrate: __ Animal without a backbone. __ Aquatic invertebrate: __ Animals such as insects, crustaceans, and worms that spend part or all of their life cycles in water. __ Hemimetabolous or Incomplete metamorphosis: __ For aquatic insects: a type of insect development with distinct egg, naiad, and adult stages; the naiad and adult share some similar characteristics and there is no inactive pupa stage; naiad is an aquatic nymph. __ Holometabolous or Complete metamorphosis: __ A type of insect development characterized by changes in the body form of insects that include egg, larva, pupa (resting and reorganizing stage) and adult stages; the larval stages look different from the adult stage. __ Food web: __ Complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding interactions of organisms living in an ecosystem. __ Ecosystem: __ A community of living organisms that are linked by energy and nutrient flows and that interact with each other and with the physical environment. __ Biodiversity __ : measurement of the healthiness of a habitat; measured by the number of different species (richness) and by their distribution. A healthy environment would typically have many species which are relatively rare, intermixed with a few abundant species __Competition__: a detrimental interaction between two or more organisms for an essential, but limited resource __ Functional Feeding Groups __ : division of animals by the way they eat __Macroinvertebrate__: a group of animals without backbones which are large enough to see without a microscope __ Niche: __ an organism's role; the "place" of an organism which includes its habitat, and its effect on other organisms and the environment. How many different orders of insects did you find in your habitat area? For which insect did you find the largest count? smallest count? **//There were a lot of fire ants, members of Odonata, and gnats. We only managed to find one grasshopper. Everything else//** How did the mouth parts relate to the habitat in which the insect was found? **//Most of the land insects had chewing mouthparts, while most of the aquatic insects had piercing, sucking mouth parts.//** What other adaptations that aided the insect in its environment? **//The aquatic insects usually had natatorial limbs, while the larvae had extremely small ones limbs. Land insects had//** Create an aqatic food web using the specimens you found (at least 3). If you need to fill in blanks with something you didn’t collect, put the name in parentheses. You may add vertebrates to your web. Use arrows to indicate the energy flow.
 * Vocabulary **
 * Questions **
 * // We found at least seven orders of insects in and near Lake Alice. //**
 * // had at least two specimens. //**
 * // cursorial limbs or wings. The predators (aquatic and terrestrial) had large eyes. The aquatic insects had breathing //**
 * // adaptations, such as the ability to carry bubbles or absorb oxygen directly from the water. //**
 * Activity **