Food Chains

GABRIELA VALENTINA
HERNANDEZ ACOSTA
4J

Shows how each living thing gets its food.

Some animals eat plants and some animals
eat other animals.
For example, a simple food chain links the
trees & shrubs, the giraffes (that eat trees &
shrubs), and the lions (that eat the giraffes).
Each link in this chain is food for the next
link.

A Food Chain

Sun

Jiraffes
Lions

Trees & Shrubs

Carnivore
Plant

Herbivore

Using the simple food chain below to describe

how energy comes from the sun to the plants and
the plants pass the energy to the organisms that
eat the plants and the process continues.

Sun
trees
giraffes
lions.
The sun provides energy to the tree,
the tree provides energy to the
giraffe, and the giraffe provides
energy to the lion.
This is the flow of energy.