Food Chains
A diagram that shows how energy moves from one living thing to another is called ____.
A food chain
Is a lion a carnivore, herbivore, or omnivore?
Carnivore
What is a predator?
An animal that hunts and eats other animals
A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight is called _____.
A producer
How does a producer get its food?
Photosynthesis (from the sun, water, and soil)
Are humans carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores?
Omnivores! (We eat plants and animals)
Animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals are called _____.
Prey
What is a consumer?
A living thing that gets its energy by eating other animals.
Draw a food chain that shows how a worm, rabbit, carrot, and wolf are connected.
Carrot --> Rabbit --> Wolf --> Worm
____ is an animal who only eats meat.
Carnivore
A robin eats a worm. Who is the predator?
The robin
Which living thing is a consumer, which is a producer, and which is a decomposer?
1. Mushrooms
2. Bunny
3. Pine tree
Bunny - consumer
Pine tree - producer
Create a food chain with these living things:
Fox
Fungi
Mouse
Berries
Berries --> Mouse --> Fox --> Fungi
What is an herbivore?
An animal that only eats plants.
A penguin is captured and eaten by a leopard seal. Who is the predator? Who is the prey?
Predator - the leopard seal
Prey - the penguin
Please give an example of a consumer, a producer, and a decomposer.
Answers will vary.
Draw a food chain with a producer, 2 consumers, and a decomposer.
Answers will vary
Which of these foods would an omnivore NOT eat?
- Leaf
- Grass
- Meat
TRICK QUESTION! They would eat all of those things because omnivores eat plants and animals.
Can an animal be a predator and prey? Explain.
Yes. Example: a frog eats a bug, but can also be eaten by a snake.
Explain how decomposers get their energy.
They break down dead plants and animals and turn the dead material into soil.