Introduction to Food Chains and Food Webs

What is a food chain?

• a string of food

• a model that shows how energy flows

• a model of doughnuts linked together

• a grocery store

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What flows between the food chain?

• food

• pizza

• energy

• water

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Check the words that also mean habitat for plants and animals.

• home

• apartment

• environment

• habit

Which of these animals take energy from plants?

• hawks

• snakes

• rabbits

• sun

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If the sun did not play a role in this food chain, what would happen?

• The plants and animals would find a new source of energy.

• All of the plants and animals in this food chain would die off.

• The plants would die off, but the animals would survive because they can move to another habitat.

• The animals would die off, but the plants would survive because they do not need sunlight.

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1. When you go “down” the food chain by continuing to ask “What does it eat?” at what category of living things do you always end up?

• Consumers

• Predators

• Plants

• Omnivores

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2. What living things in the food web are producers?

• rabbit and mouse

• hawk and snake

• wildflowers and grass

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4. A living thing that eats only meat is called what?

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

5. A living thing that eats only plants is called what?

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

7. According to the food web, what does the frog eat?

• grasshopper

• cricket

• cattail

• shrew