Today we are going to learn about: Food Chains

KEY WORDS food chain consumer producer predator prey

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

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

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

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

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

Ten Questions Subject: Food Chains

Ten Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Name a predator and its prey.

9. Name a consumer. Any animal

10. Name a producer Any plant.

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!