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    The document discusses food chains and food webs. It defines producers as organisms that make their own food, often plants, and consumers as organisms that eat other organisms or producers to obtain energy. Consumers are divided into herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. Decomposers like bacteria and fungi break down dead plants and animals, recycling nutrients. Food chains show a single path of energy transfer from producer to consumer. Food webs are made of interconnected food chains and have multiple consumers. Energy pyramids illustrate how little energy is available at higher trophic levels.

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    FOOD CHAINS

    AND
    FOOD WEBS
    Words to Know
    Producer – an organism that makes it’s own
    food
    *Plants are
    producers

    Consumers – an organism that has to eat to


    get energy
    Types of Consumers
    herbivore – an organism that only
    eats plants

    carnivore - an organism that only


    eats meat

    omnivore – an organism that eats


    meat and plants
    Decomposers
    • Break down dead
    plants and animals
    • Bacteria and fungi
    are two examples
    • Reduces dead
    organisms to
    simpler forms of
    matter
    • Returns them to the
    soil
    Food Chain
    • Shows how each
    living thing gets
    food
    • Always begins with
    the producer
    • Arrows show the
    flow of energy from
    one organism to
    another
    Build a Food Chain
    Click on the links below to build a food
    chain:
    Chain Reaction Game

    Food Chain Game


    Food Web
    • A collection of food
    chains
    interconnected from
    the same
    ecosystem
    • Arrows show the
    flow of energy from
    one organism to
    another
    • Multiple consumers
    Build a Food Web
    Click on the links below to build a food web:

    Food Web

    Fun with Food Webs


    Energy Pyramid
    • Shows the amounts
    of energy available
    at each trophic level
    of an ecosystem
    • The higher in the
    pyramid, the less
    energy available
    Find Out More About Energy
    Pyramids

    Click on the button below to learn more:

    Energy Pyramid
    Quiz
    1. A lion is a __________ because it eats
    only
    meat. carnivore

    herbivore

    omnivore
    2. A _________ is a producer.

    cheetah

    plant

    grasshopper
    3. True or False.

    A food web can have multiple consumers


    and
    producers.

    TRUE FALSE
    4. Which animal would fit in the blank of this
    food chain?

    hawk zebra

    mouse butterfly
    5. The plant gets its energy from the
    _______.

    roots stem

    sun flowers
    CORRECT!!

    Back to question
    TRY AGAIN!

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