1. You Try Where do many people think mosquitoes get their energy?
By biting people and animals and “drinking” some of their blood.
What happens to the energy that mosquitoes get by biting people or animals and consuming their blood?
Mosquitoes use some and some is passed on to the animals that eat mosquitoes.

2. What are food chains and food webs?

3. Food Chain
A food chain is the movement of food energy through a sequence, or order, of living things.
Every food chain starts with producers.

4. Consumers that are eaten are called prey
A consumer that eats prey is called a predator

5. Top Level
Consumer D E C O M P S R
First Level
Consumer
Producers
Soil

6. Energy is transferred at each level of a food chain
Example: Deer get energy from the grass, cougars get energy when they eat deer.

7. Decomposers are important parts of all food chains
Decomposers help return nutrients to the soil in which producers grow

8. Food Web
A food chain that overlaps from a food web
This overlapping takes place when a consumer eats more than one type of food