Food Chain Lesson 55

1. Food Chain Lesson 55

2. All living things depend on each other for their food.

3. All living things need energy in order to live and they get this energy from the food they eat.

4. A food chain starts with plants and it ends with animals.

5. Plants can make their own food. They can make food from water, sunlight, air and nutrition they get from the soil.

6. Plants will always be at the beginning of a food chain.

7. Animals can not make their own food.

8. All animals depend on plants for energy. Some get their energy by eating plants.

9. Some animals get their energy from plants even though they do not eat plants.

10. The lion does not eat plants but the zebra does eat plants. The zebra gets its energy from the grass and the lion gets its energy from the zebra who ate the grass.

11. A one example of a simple food chain starts with grass.

12. The grass is eaten by a rabbit.

13. The rabbit is eaten by a fox.

14. The grass made energy from the sun, water, air and soil. The rabbit got energy by eating the grass and the fox got energy by eating the rabbit.

15. One example of a big food chain starts with acorns.

16. Acorns grow from trees. Trees make their own energy from the sun, water, air and soil.

17. Mice eat the acorns for energy.

18. A snake will eat the mouse for energy.

19. The hawk eats the snake for energy.

20. At each part of the chain energy is being passed from one living thing to another. energy energy energy energy

21. An example of a food chain found off land would start with a plant called algae. Algae can be found in oceans or lakes.

22. Algae is a plant and it makes its own energy from sun, water, air and soil.

23. Small fish eat the algae for energy.

24. Bigger fish eat the small fish for energy.

25. A shark eats a big fish for energy.

26. Energy is passed from the algae to the small fish. Then the energy is passed to the big fish. At last the energy is passed to the shark.

27. Today we learned about food chains. We learned that plants are always at the beginning of all food chains.

28. All animals depend on plants even if they do not eat plants.

29. In our next lesson we will learn ways to sort animals.

30. Keep observing the world around you!