Food Webs in a Cloud Forest

1. Food Webs in a Cloud Forest by Rebecca Hogue Wojahn

2. Based on the book… By Rebecca Hogue Wojahn and Donald Wojahn Part of a 12-book series published by Lerner Books, 2009 Buy at Amazon or through Lerner Learn more about the book! Learn more about the series!

3. Related Links on… Africa: Explore the Regions African Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Gallery National Geographic Kids Creature Feature Cloud Forests and their Creatures

4. WARNING! The rest of this slideshow is not meant to clicked and viewed straight through. Just like the book it is based on, YOU have to make the decisions about who eats what and who gets eaten! Click the links to follow a path through the cloud forest. Furthermore, these are not all the routes through this habitat’s food web. There are thousands more plants and animals that fit in, and many of the featured animals will eat even more choices than are presented. Finally, want to learn more about these animals? Check your library or search for them in these links: Africa: Explore the Regions African Wildlife Foundation Wildlife Gallery National Geographic Kids Creature Feature Have fun!

5. First, choose a tertiary consumer…(what’s that?) A leopard An African golden cat A black mamba snake A martial eagle

6. The leopard eats…(click one) An eastern black-and-white colobus An African golden cat cub A blue duiker An okapi A honey badger A giant forest hog Some speckled cockroaches A baby mountain gorilla

7. The African golden cat eats…(click one) A rock hyrax A collared sunbird A giant otter shrew A Ruwenzori toraco A honey badger A blue duiker Some tropical house geckoes A baby highland mangabey

8. The black mamba snake eats…(click one) Martial eagle eggs A baby highland mangabey A rock hyrax Ruwenzori toraco eggs An eastern black-and-white colobus A tropical house gecko A blue duiker A strange-horned chameleon

9. The rock hyrax eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias A butterfly caterpillar Eggs from a tropical house gecko Fungus Green mountain bamboo Leaves and twigs from trees A speckled cockroach

10. The martial eagle eats…(click one) A rock hyrax A collared sunbird An eastern black-and-white colobus A strange-horned chameleon A blue duiker A honey badger A baby highland mangabey An okapi

11. The collared sunbird eats…(click one) Nectar from flowers in the trees A butterfly caterpillar A speckled cockroach

12. The speckled cockroach eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias A dead swallowtail butterfly Rotten fruit and leaves from the trees A termite nest Mushrooms and other funguses A dead chimpanzee Dead green mountain bamboo

13. The giant forest hog eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias Fungus Green mountain bamboo Leaves and fruits from the trees

14. The mountain gorilla eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias Fungus Green mountain bamboo Leaves and fruits from the trees

15. Fungus eats…(click one) A termite nest A dead African golden cat Wilted impatiens and begonias A dead leopard Rotten leaves and fruits from the trees Dead green mountain bamboo A dead martial eagle A dead chimpanzee

16. Impatiens and begonias eat nutrients in the soil from…(click one) Termites A dead Ruwenzori toraco A dead leopard A dead black mamba A dead collared sunbird A dead tropical house gecko A dead martial eagle

17. The okapi eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias Fungus Green mountain bamboo Leaves and fruits from the trees

18. The highland mangabey eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias A butterfly caterpillar A tropical house gecko eggs Fungus Green mountain bamboo Leaves and fruits from the trees A speckled cockroach

19. The butterflies eat…(click one) Impatiens and begonias Leaves and fruits from the trees

20. The strange-horned chameleon eats…(click one) A butterfly caterpillar A speckled cockroach Termites

21. The eastern black-and-white colobus monkey eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias Fungus Green mountain bamboo Leaves and fruits from the trees

22. Trees eat nutrients in the soil from…(click one) Speckled cockroaches A dead mountain gorilla A dead leopard A dead giant forest hog A dead African golden cat An eastern black-and-white colobus A dead honey badger A dead okapi

23. The honey badger eats…(click one) Mushrooms and other fungus A speckled cockroach Termites A giant otter shrew A collared sunbird A black mamba A butterfly A rock hyrax

24. The tropical house gecko eats…(click one) A butterfly Termites A speckled cockroach

25. The chimpanzee eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias Leaves and fruits from the trees Termites A giant forest hog piglet A collared sunbird A blue duiker

26. The termites eat…(click one) Impatiens and begonias Fungus Leaves and fruits from the trees Green mountain bamboo

27. The Ruwenzori turaco eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias Leaves and fruits from the trees A butterfly Green mountain bamboo Termites A speckled cockroach

28. The giant otter shrew eats…(click one) A butterfly Termites A speckled cockroach

29. The green mountain bamboo gets nutrients from the soil from…(click one) Termites A dead martial eagle A dead leopard A dead chimpanzee A dead African golden cat A dead strange-horned chameleon A dead black mamba A dead giant forest hog

30. The blue duiker eats…(click one) Impatiens and begonias Leaves and fruits from the trees A collared sunbird Ruwenzori toraco eggs A butterfly Fungus A speckled cockroach Green mountain bamboo

31. Tertiary Consumer • A tertiary consumer is an animal that hunts other animals for food and that has few natural enemies.

32. More About the Book… A Cloud Forest Food Chain : A Who-Eats-What Adventure in North America by Rebecca Hogue Wojahn & Donald Wojahn  64 pages • Bibliography • Full-Color Photographs • Further Reading • Glossary • Index • Maps • Table of Contents • Websites For Grades 3-5     Welcome to an African cloud forest! As you set off down the mountain path, all you see ahead is a thick tangle of vines and bamboo trees. But the cloud forest is full of life, from a collared sunbird hovering over some flowers to a leopard stalking a giant forest hog. Day and night in the cloud forest, the hunt is on to find food - and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, plant to insect, and insect to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the cloud forest? Will you . . . Watch a fierce honey badger battle a dangerous snake? Slink along with an African golden cat as it tails its prey? Munch on some leaves with a family of mountain gorillas? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!

33. More About the Series… • Lerner Publications12-Book Series, Library BoundISBN-10: 0-8225-7494-2ISBN-13: 978-0-8225-7494-164 pages eachBibliography • Full-Color Photographs • Further Reading • Glossary • Index • Maps • Table of Contents • WebsitesGrades 3-5 • An interactive, nonlinear nonfiction series about food webs in different habitats. After reading about an animal, you choose what it eats. Your choices weave a route through the habitat’s food web. But pay attention–you may end up where you never expected to be. And watch out for those dead ends! • Other books in the series:A Temperate Forest • The African Savanna • A South American Rain Forest • The Australian Outback • The Arctic Tundra • The Sonoran Desert • The Galapagos Islands • The Nile River • An Asian Mangrove Forest • An African Cloud Forest • A North American Estuary • A Coral Reef