Food Chain

&
Food Web
Food web

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 Elements of the food chain

Producers Consumers Decomposers

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 Producers-make their own food

Primary consumers – eat producers

Secondary consumers – eat primary consumers

Tertiary consumers – eat secondary consumers

Decomposers

❑ Organisms that get energy from

dead or waste organic material

❑ Help in recycling the nutrients

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 Consumer or Producer?
Producers are plants that make their own food.

Consumers are animals that eat food.

Which are consumers and which are producers?

rabbit
rabbit mouse
mouse lion
lion

lettuce
lettuce sea otter
sea otter
 Links in the food chain
Level 5 Decomposers

Level 4 Consumers 3

Level 3 Consumers 2

Level 2 Consumers 1

Level 1 Producers

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