Food Chains - May 02

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.

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What provides energy to plants for photosynthesis?

• The Sun

• The Soil

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Plants are called

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because they produce their own food.

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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.

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A mouse is a

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because it cannot make its own food.

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

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Humans that eat both plants and animals are

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Herbivores

Carnivores

Omnivores

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These animals only eat meat:

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These organisms break down dead and decaying matter:

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decomposers

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