Food Chains

Match the following

• eats meat only

• omnivore

• eats plants and meat

• herbivore

• eats plants only

• carnivore

The energy for a food chain begins with...

• the sun

• the moon

• the ocean

• a predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Match the following

• breaks down dead plants or animals

• consumer

• eats something else for food or energy

• producer

• makes their own food or energy

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

​ (a)   are animals that eat other animals. ​ (b)   are the animals that are hunted and eaten.

• Predators
• Prey

What would happen to the snakes if mice became endangered?

• There would be more snakes.

• There would be less snakes.

• They would stay the same.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What would happen to the grasshoppers if mice became endangered?

• There would be more grasshoppers.

• There would be less grasshoppers.

• They would stay the same.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4