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Animals and Plants Are Linked by Food Chains .

Animals and plants are linked together in food chains. In a food chain, one organism eats another - for example, caterpillars eat leaves, small birds eat caterpillars, and owls eat small birds. Nearly all food chains start with a green plant. If one part of the food chain is disrupted, such as by a disease eliminating caterpillars, it affects the entire food chain as other animals no longer have that food source.

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Animals and Plants Are Linked by Food Chains .

Animals and plants are linked together in food chains. In a food chain, one organism eats another - for example, caterpillars eat leaves, small birds eat caterpillars, and owls eat small birds. Nearly all food chains start with a green plant. If one part of the food chain is disrupted, such as by a disease eliminating caterpillars, it affects the entire food chain as other animals no longer have that food source.

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Animals and plants are linked by food chains..

Animals get energy and nutrients by eating other animals or plants. For example, caterpillars eats leaves; small birds eat caterpillars; owls eat small birds; eagles eat owls. These links between animals and plants are called food chains. Nearly all food chains start with a green plant. If one part of a food chain alters, the whole food chain is affected. For example, if a disease suddenly wiped out caterpillars, it would affect owls, eagles and many other animals.
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Some animals eat plants.

Some animals eat other animals.

Some will eat both plants and animals

Just like we need food to help our bodies grow and live, all plants and animals need food to Who eatssurvive. what? Who eats what?

Animals

eat

What do they eat?

What do they eat?

A food chain shows what animals eat.

Grass hoppe r Fox

Barn owl

All food begins with the sun.

seeds

plants

animal

Can you make a food chain?

Example of a food chain


Plant

Caterpillar eats the plant

Small Birds eat Caterpillars

Owls eat Small Birds


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Producers and Consumers


Plants are called producers because they make their own food. They are at the start of a food chain.

Animals are called consumers because they eat other plants and animals.

Producer

Consumer
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Prey and predators


A predator is an animal that eats other animals. The animals that predators eat are called prey.

Prey
Predator
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Herbivores
Herbivores are animals that only eat plants.

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Carnivores
Carnivores are animals that eat meat. Carnivores will also eat animals that eat plants.

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Omnivores
Omnivores will eat both plants and animals. Some animals eat both plants and meat. People are omnivores

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Insects eat plants


Insects eat plants.

Fish, frogs, and birds eat the insects that eat the plants.
This begins the food chain.

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Birds, Animals and People Eat Fish


Birds and other animals eat the fish. The fish eat the plants and insects. People eat fish too.

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A Food Chain
Plant Insects

Frog

Bear

Fish People
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Survival Map
SPEED Speed of predator Color/ camouflage

Prey
Factors Pattern Proximity to hiding places Movement
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Survival

SHAPE

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