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Food Chains

The path by which energy passes from one living thing to another.

The Sun

All food chains start with the energy from the Sun.

Producers

The Sun provides energy to plants. The plants use the Sun's energy to produce their own food through photosynthesis. Plants are called producers because they can produce their own food.

Producers

Producers are at the bottom of the food chain.

Multiple Choice

What provides energy to plants for photosynthesis?

• The Sun

• The Soil

Multiple Choice

Plants are called ______________ because they produce their own food.

• consumers

• producers

Consumers

Animals that consume (or eats) plants and/or animals. They cannot make their own food.

Consumers

There are three types of consumers: herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.

Multiple Choice

A mouse is a ___________ because it cannot make its own food.

• consumer

• producer

Herbivores

An animal that eats plants.

* Antelope

* Rabbits

* Cows

* Elk

Carnivores

An animal that only eats other animals.

* Tiger

* Wolf

* Polar Bear

* Sharks

Omnivores

An animal that eats both plants and animals.

* Bears

* Raccoons

* Foxes

* Pigs

Decomposers

An organism that decomposes, or breaks down, organic material such as the remains of dead organisms.

* Earthworms

* Snails

* Mushrooms

* Fungus

Multiple Choice

Humans that eat both plants and animals are--

• Herbivores

• Carnivores

• Omnivores

Multiple Choice

These animals only eat meat-

• carnivores

• omnivores

• herbivores

Multiple Choice

These organisms break down dead and decaying matter.

• consumers

• decomposers

• producers

Multiple Choice

What is a Food Chain?

• The reduction of energy from organism to organism.

• The transfer of energy from organism to organism.

• The hunting of animals.

• The death of wild animals.

Multiple Choice

What is a food web?

• Multiple organisms linked together.

• A group of wild animals.

• Multiple food chains linked together.

• A group of dead animals.

Multiple Select

Click all of the correct food chains

• Owl - Rat - Corn

• Fox - Carrots - Rabbit - Lion

• Dog - Sheep - Nuts

• Lion - Zebra - Grass