Transcript Slide 1

Living Together
A real life food chain
 A cheetah chases down
and devours a zebra.
The scene is not
uncommon in Etosha,
where the cycle of life,
death, and birth has
played out longer than
any human can
remember.
 In this situation, the
cheetah is the predator,
the animal that is eating,
while the zebra is the
prey, the animal being
eaten.
 Predators and prey comprise only a
portion of what is commonly known as a
food chain.
 A food chain explains how food energy is
transferred between living things in an
environment.
 Every living thing in a
food chain is either a
producer or a
consumer.
 Producers, such as
plants, obtain energy
from non-living
sources, while
consumers get their
energy by consuming
other living things.
 Every consumer is
either a predator or
prey.
Producers and Consumers
 Producers make their own food.
 Consumers eat other living things.
Herbivore
Omnivore
Decomposer
Carnivore
 Animals that are hunted and eaten are
called prey.
 Animals that do the hunting and eating
are called predators.
Food Chain
 A food chain shows a direct link
between an animal and the thing it eats
and is eaten by.
Food Web
 A food web is a complex arrangement of
food chains.
Figure it out!
1. The dog, boy, and squirrel all eat food.
What are they called?
producers
consumers
 Consumers
herbivore
2. Are plants such as lettuce
carnivore
omnivore
and carrots producers or
food chain
food web
consumers?
predator
prey
 Prodcuers
decomposer
? ? ? Questions
 3. What do you call an animal who eats
only beef and chicken?
producers
 Carnivore
consumers
herbivore
 4. What is an animal who eats
carnivore
only leaves, fruit, and nuts called? omnivore
food chain
food web
 Herbivore
predator
prey
decomposer
Questions ? ? ?
 5. What is an animal who eats both fish
and rice called?
producers
consumers
 Omnivore
herbivore
carnivore
 6. What do you call the tiny
omnivore
food chain
organism that causes dead plants food web
predator
prey
and animals to crumble and rot?
decomposer
 Decomposer