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🌾 Simple Food Chains

The Sun feeds the plants, the plants feed the animals, and one animal can feed another. Follow the food and see how a food chain works.

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~15 min

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🔬 Science

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Ages 6–12

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What you’ll learn

Energy from the SunUnderstand that food chains begin with the Sun and that plants are producers that make their own food.Food chains start with the Sun. Plants use sunlight, water, and air to make their own food in their leaves, which makes them producers. Producers are the first link in every food chain.
Plants Make FoodLearn that plant eaters and meat eaters pass energy along, and that arrows point from food to feeder.Animals that eat plants take in the energy the plant caught from the Sun, and animals that eat other animals pass it along again. In a food chain diagram, the arrow always points from the food to whoever eats it, following the energy.
Who Eats WhomFollow example food chains on land and in the sea and put a food chain in the correct order.A food chain shows who eats whom. In a garden, a grasshopper eats a leaf and a robin eats the grasshopper. In the sea, small fish eat tiny sea plants and bigger fish eat them. Every chain starts with the Sun and a plant, and each link depends on the one before it.

Questions this course answers

Where does the energy in most food chains begin?

Almost every food chain starts with the Sun, which plants use to make food.

Why is a plant called a producer?

A producer makes its own food using sunlight, and plants do exactly that in their leaves.

In a food chain, which way does the arrow point?

The arrow points from the food to whoever eats it, showing which way the energy travels.

In the chain grass, grasshopper, robin, what does the robin eat?

The robin eats the grasshopper, so the energy passes from grass to grasshopper to robin.

What comes first in an ocean food chain?

Ocean food chains also start with tiny plants that catch the Sun's light near the surface.

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National Geographic Kids
Britannica Kids
BBC Bitesize

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