Web of life: Food Chains, predators, herbivores, & carnivore

What is a food chain?

• Shows how each living thing gets take out food from McDonald's.

• Shows how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from creature to creature.

• Shows how the consumer is the first part of the food chain.

• Shows how the producer lives off the consumer.

Who is the predator?

• The predator is an organism that eats another organism.

• The predator is who gets eaten.

• The predators are only herbivores.

• The predator are crazy zombies from space.

Who is the prey?

• The prey is an organism that eats another organism.

• The prey is considered the only organism in the food chain.

• The prey are only large wild animals.

• The prey is the organism that gets eaten.

Which of the following groups are considered prey?

• lions, tigers, and bears oh my!

• rabbit, lettuce, mouse, bird

• falcons, great white shark, whale

• wolves, polar bear, tiger, crocodile

Which of the following groups are considered predators?

• bee, bird, worm, fly

• crocodile, elephant, cabbage, cockroach

• bear, eagle, mosquito, frog

• tiger, lion, killer whale, polar bear

Which two questions do you ask yourself about a food chain?

• What is it eaten by? 2. Why does it eat what it eats?

• What does it eat? 2. Where does it eat?

• What does it eat? 2. What is it eaten by?

• Who would eat it? 2. What does it drink?

All food chains start with what energy source?

• Sun

• Moon

• Grass

• Water

The sun is energy captured by plants.Thus the living part of a food chain always starts with ...

• a small insect and ends with a predator

• a prey animal and ends with a prey

• a flower and ends with a large animal

• plant life and ends with an animal

Which food chain is correct?

• Sun - bear - fish - worm

• Sun - grass - grasshopper - mouse - owl

• Sun - worm - ant - fly - ladybug

• Sun - flower - elephant - crocodile - fox

What are herbivores?

• Animals that eat both plants and animals.

• Animals that eat only other animals.

• Animals that eat only plants.

• Animals that prefer leftovers from tourists.