Food Chain
Every food chain begins with
sunlight or producers
What do plants use from the air?
carbon dioxode
A feeding relationship shows us what each animal.....
eats
A ________ shows us what each animal eats.
feeding relationship
True or False: Animals can make their own food.
False
What is the purpose of a food chain?
Represents the feeding relationship between animals and plants.
When plants are healthy and can use energy from the Sun to make their own food we call them
producers
Why do predators need lots of energy?
So they can catch their prey and survive
What is prey?
Animals that are hunted and eaten by predators
A food web is different from a food chain because
it gives us more information about feeding relationships
Food webs give us information about __________
feeding relationships
Plants need three things to survive; ________, ________ and _______.
water, sunlight,( nutrients or soil )
What does a pyramid of numbers tell us?
They show us how many plants and animals are needed to feed each level on the pyramid
A habitat is
where an animal or plant lives
What two important things do green plants produce?
Oxygen and food energy
Put this food chain in order:
snake, sunlight, lizard, grass, insects
sunlight-grass-insect-lizard-snake
_______ is the name of the food the plant needs so that it can grow.
Glucose
Every living thing needs ___________ to survive
sunshine
What is Photosynthesis?
when green plants make food using light energy from the Sun
What is the equation for photosynthesis?
carbon dioxide + water (light energy) glucose + oxygen