2. Today we are going to learn about: Food Chains

3. KEY WORDS food chain consumer producer predator prey

4. Task 1 – Sorting living things Consumer or producer? What do you think? Producers are plants they make their own food Consumers are animals they eat food

5. Task 2 – Making food chains direction of energy flow eaten by What eats what?

6. Design your own food chain – use the things in your tray or make up your own Draw or write it on paper Describe it to a friend CHECK Does it start with a producer? Are the arrows going in the right direction? Task 3 – Making food chains

7. Challenge Use these words to label your food chain: eaten by consumer producer predator prey

8. Food chains A food chain shows where the energy goes in a food chain (in other words, “what gets eaten by what”): Cabbage Rabbit Stoat Fox The arrows indicate where the energy is going Plants convert the sun’s energy into food eaten by

9. Ten Questions Subject: Food Chains

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11. 1.Give an example of a consumer that makes honey? A bee

12. 2.What must a food chain always begin with? A plant A producer Cabbage Cactus

13. 3.Name a producer eaten by rabbits. Cabbage, carrot or grass. Cabbage eaten by

14. 4.Are penguins the prey of polar bears? No because penguins live in the Antarctic and polar bears live in the Arctic.

15. 5.Are hedgehogs producers or consumers? They are CONSUMERS because they eat (consume) food (slugs and worms).

16. 6.Write down a food chain involving the animal below. Seaweed wrasse sea otter polar bear

17. 7.What do the arrows in a food chain show? What eats what. direction of energy flow eaten by

18. 8. Name a predator and its prey.

19. 9. Name a consumer. Any animal

20. 10. Name a producer Any plant.

21. You can make food chains which start with a producer and end with a consumer You know the difference between prey and predator You can put the arrows in the right direction and you know what they mean Congratulations!