Activities

1. Outline the steps that must be taken in order to create a shirt from cotton.
   
   
2. List in order, from simplest to most complex, the components that make up an organism.

3. In a food chain, how can primary producers be compared to carnivores?

4. When looking at a diagram of a food chain, if the producers are killed because of pollution, how do you think it would affect the other trophic levels? Explain your reasoning.

Answer Key/Rubric

1. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
   • The cotton must be harvested.
   • It is sent to a factory to be cleaned.
   • The factory will create thread from the cotton.
   • The thread is then woven into cloth.
   • The cloth is cut and sewn to create a shirt.

2. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:

3.  Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
   • Producers use energy from the sun to grow.
   • Primary consumers eats the producers.
   • A secondary consumer might eat the primary consumer.
   • A tertiary consumer may eat a secondary consumer.

4. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to:
   • The 1^st level carnivorous consumers would have to find another food source.  They would have to eat things like cockles. 
   • There would be a shortage of food for the 1^st level consumers.  A lot of them would die.
   • This would affect the 2^nd level carnivorous consumers because their food supply would also be decreased.
   • The 3^rd level carnivorous consumers and top carnivores would also have a decreased food supply.