Food Web Maker

Open a Creately workspace and add your peers as collaborators with edit access allowing them to work on the food web diagram with you in real-time.

Define the ecosystem you want to study by identifying the specific geographical areas, climate, and habitats, and what species of plants and animals are found there.

Collect all data and information on as many producers and consumers as possible within your chosen habitat; these include the herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores of the ecosystem. Compile a list of each organism and select the ones you wish to include in your food chain.

You can start from the bottom by creating the base level of a food chain that will consist of primary producers.This includes plants, cacti, algae, moss, etc, and organisms that produce their own food.

On the level just above the producers, you will need to insert images of the secondary consumers, this includes herbivores or omnivores. For example, a rabbit in a forest habitat that consumes plants is a herbivore, but a bird, being an omnivore, will consume fruits and worms.

The third level will consist of the tertiary consumers, the carnivores that are usually the final predators of the food web. However, there are quaternary consumers as well. For example, in a rainforest, a frog is consumed by a snake, a tertiary consumer, and is then consumed by the quaternary consumer, a hawk. To add more depth to your food web, you can add decomposers, such as bacteria that breaks down dead animals.

Create a visually appealing food web by importing images or clipart to your visual workspace, and use color palettes to get creative with different styles. Use arrows or connectors to display the relationship between all the organisms of the food web, and label the organisms if required.

You can download your creations in PDF, PNG, JPEG, or SVG formats for sharing, publishing, or printing.