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FOOD CHAINSCreated by Mr. Hemmert
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Science ALCOS
L5.3 Tracing the flow of energy through a food chainExample: producer, first-level consumer,
second-level consumer, and third-level consumer
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Food Chains
Every organism needs to obtain energy in order to live.
Plants get energy from the sun, some animals eat plants, and some animals eat other animals.
Living things depend on one another to live.
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Food Chains
A food chain is the movement of food energy in a sequence of living things.
producer
consumerconsumer
consumer
consumer
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Food Chain Vocabulary
Consumers that are eaten are called prey.
A consumer that eats prey is a predator.
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Prey and Predators
Predators limit the number of prey animals in a habitat.
Ex. Wolves are predators of antelope. They keep the population of antelope from increasing too much, so the antelope don’t eat all of the producers.
Predators often compete for the same prey. This limits the number of predators in a habitat.
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Level of Producers
Primary Producers - Organisms that make their own food from sunlight. Primary producers are always the base (bottom) of the every food chain.
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Levels of Consumers
First Level Consumers are animals that eat producers (plants).
They are also called herbivores (plant-eaters)
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Levels of Consumers
Second Level Consumers eat first level consumers. They are called carnivores (meat – eaters) and omnivores (animals that eat both animals and plants.)
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Levels of Consumers
Third level consumers eat second level consumers.
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Practice
What is the primary producer? _________________________
What is the first-level consumer? _________________________
What is the second - level consumer? _______________________What is the third-level consumer? ________________________
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Practice
Primary Producer: _______________
First-level Consumer: _____________
Second-level Consumer: __________
Third-level Consumer: ____________
Decomposer: ___________________
leaf bird
snail
fox
bacteria
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Resources
Microsoft Online