Food Webs and Energy Transfer

Food Chains

Today we will learn what a food chain is and the different parts that it is made of!

Multiple Choice

What is an organism?

• something not alive

• a living thing

Food Chain

• a transfer of energy through a series of organisms that use each other for food.

Producers

• at the start of the food chain

• they make their own food

• plants are considered producers

Consumers

• Animals that eat other plants and animals

• Get their energy from other plants and animals.

Predator

• An animal that eats other animals

• Highest up on the food chain

Prey

• Known as the animals that the predators eat

• Lower on the food chain

Multiple Choice

Why are green plants called producers?

• they eat their own food

• they produce knowledge

• they make their own food

• they eat other animals

Multiple Choice

Why are animals considered consumers?

• They get their food from other plants and animals

• They make their own food

Multiple Choice

What is a predator?

• An animal that is eaten by other animals

• An animal that does not do anything.

• An animal that eats other animals

Multiple Choice

What is a prey?

• The animal that is being eaten

• The animal that eats other animals

• The lion

Multiple Choice

What is the lettuce?

• Producer

• Consumer

Multiple Choice

What is the rabbit?

• Producer

• Consumer

Multiple Choice

What is the lion?

• Predator

• Prey

Multiple Choice

What is the coyote?

• Predator

• Prey

Multiple Select

Which is NOT a consumer?

Select all that

Multiple Select

Producers are.....

Select all that apply

• Plants

• Animals

• Trees

• Grass

Multiple Choice

A decomposer......

• Makes its own food from sunlight, air, and soil

• Can't make their own food

• Get energy from the remains of dead plants and animals

Multiple Select

Which is an example of a decomposer?

Select all that apply

An animal that eats ONLY plants

​Herbivores

A living thing that eats BOTH plants and Animals

​OMnivores

Types of Consumers

​Carnivores

An animal that eats ONLY meat