Desert Giant Questions
Name: ________________________________________ Date:_____________________ 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
1. Using your food web roles, classify the following organisms (Producer, Primary, etc.) Justify your
classifications.
a. Saguaro Cactus
b. Gila Woodpecker
c. Black Widow Spider
d. Termite
e. Butterfly
f.
O’odham
2. Describe one food chain from the book.
3. What are the pleats in the side of the cactus used for?
4. What are saguaro boots? Where do they come from?
5. What animals use the saguaro as a home?
6. What animals help the Saguaro pollinate? How do they help the Saguara? What type of symbiotic
relationship does this represent? Justify your answer.
7. Below, draw a food web with ten of the organisms from the book. Identify the organisms as producers,
primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, decomposers, or scavengers.
8.
Identify an example of parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism from the book. Justify your answer.
Parasitism--
Commensalism—
Mutualism—