1. 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
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2. Food Chains

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

4. What’s in a Food Chain?
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers

5. 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

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

7. Three Types of Consumers
Herbivores
Carnivores
Omnivores

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

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

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

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

12. 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

13. 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.

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

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

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

17. 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