4. Building Food Chains

Building Food Chains

Please write this:
Most food chains have more than one consumer. The consumers are described by how high up the food chain they are. This is shown in the diagram below.

• The consumer that eats the producer is called the primary consumer. All herbivores are primary consumers.

• Whatever eats the primary consumer is called the secondary consumer.

• Whatever eats the secondary consumer is called the tertiary consumer.

• If there is any animal that is large and dangerous enough to eat the tertiary consumer, it is called a quaternary consumer.

If an animal is at the top of a food chain and has no natural predators, it can also be called an apex predator.

Roles in a food chain

Multiple Select

Select all of the options that best complete the sentence. 

In the food chain above, the primary consumer:

• Is the frog

• Is the water snail

• Eats the producer

• Eats the secondary consumer

Multiple Select

Classify the giant panda considering it only eats bamboo. 

Hint: Select two options.

• 
  

  Herbivore

• Producer

• Primary consumer

• Secondary consumer

Reorder

Complete this marine food chain

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Labelling

Complete this marine food chain and identify the producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer and tertiary consumer.

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Producer

Secondary Consumer

Tertiary Consumer

Primary Consumer

Multiple Choice

Determine the apex predator in this marine food chain.

• Fish

• Shrimp

• Seaweed

• Shark

Open Ended

Determine the role you think humans would play in a food chain. Explain your answer.

Multiple Select

In the food chain above, select the correct statements about the snake.

• It is the tertiary consumer

• It eats the hawk

• It eats the secondary consumer

• It eats the producer

Word Cloud

Write one thing you remember from today's lesson.