1 2 3 Food Chains 1a Read the PowerPoint , ‘Food Chains’. Use the organiser ‘Let’s Learn About Food Chains’ to guide your discoveries and your thinking. 2 In your OneNote Learning Journal , record two of your wonderful wonderings and at least two discoveries. 3 (VCSSU058)

Food Chains

What is a Food Chain? A food chain is the path by which energy passes from one living thing to another.

What’s in a Food Chain? Producers Consumers Decomposers

Producers Producers make their own food Green plants use energy from the sun to make food Producers are on the bottom of the food chain

Consumers Consumers hunt, gather, and store food because they cannot make their own.

Three Types of Consumers Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores

Herbivores Animals who only eat plants such as: grasshoppers rabbits squirrels deer pandas

Carnivores Animals who only eat other animals, such as: tigers lions hawks wolves cougars

Predator & Prey Predator- An animal that captures and eats other animals Prey- The animal that is captured and eaten

Omnivores Animals who eat both plants and animals such as: humans bears

Decomposers Organisms that are able to break down dead plants and animals. Decomposers return the nutrients that are in a living thing to the soil

Let’s Look at a Food Chain A food chain is a simplified way to look at the energy that passes from producers to consumers.

Types of Food Chains Aquatic- Water-related food chains with sea plants and animals Terrestrial- Land-related food chains with land plants and animals

The feeding positions in a food chain or web are called trophic levels

Let’s Learn About Food Chains What’s in a Food Chain? Other cool findings Producers Consumers Decomposers Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores Predator Prey

Let’s Learn About Food Chains What’s in a Food Chain? Other cool findings Producers Consumers Decomposers Energy passes through a food chain from one thing to the next Aquatic food chains happen in the water Terrestrial food chains are on land Producers are at the start of the food chain Producers make their own food Green plants are producers Hunt their food Can’t make their own food Eat dead plants and animals Puts nutrients from living thing into the earth Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores Only eat plants Only eat other animals Eat plants and animals, like us Predator Prey Animal captures another animal Eats the other animal Animal caught by other animal who will eat it