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What is a food chain?. Unit Standards. What is a food chain?. Living things need energy to live and grow. Energy is passed from the sun to the plant to the insect to the bird. What is a food chain?. Food chain - shows how energy passes from one organism to another as food.
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What is a food chain? • Living things need energy to live and grow. Energy is passed from the sun to the plant to the insect to the bird.
What is a food chain? • Food chain- shows how energy passes from one organism to another as food
What is a food chain? • Producers- organisms that make their own food
What is a food chain? • Consumers- organisms that cannot make their own food; they must consume other organisms for food.
What is a food chain? • Most food chains are similar in a few ways. Sunlight is at the beginning of nearly all food chains. • A plant, or producer, is next in the chain. Then, an animal eats the plant. • Next, an animal eats the plant eater. • The chain continues until tiny living things break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil.
What is a food chain? • The nutrients they return to the soil are used by new plants, and the chain begins again.
What is a food chain? • With each step of the food chain, matter and energy pass from one organism to another. • Because organisms use most of the energy in food to live and grow, only a small amount of energy is passed from organism to organism.