Transcript Food Chains
Food Chains SOL 3.5 3rd Grade Science Presentation by Elaine Bennett Producers Make their own food Plants are Producers They make their food from the SUN, WATER, and NUTRIENTS in the soil Consumers Can’t make their own food Need to get food from other animals or plants 3 types of Consumers Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores Consumers- Herbivores Eat only plants Deer Cows Mice Consumers- Carnivores Eat other animals (meat) Known as Predators- catch and kill their Prey (the animal that is eaten) Tigers Frogs (eat flies) Sharks Consumers- Omnivores Eat both plants and animals Humans Raccoons Bears Pigs Decomposers Eat dead plants and animals Help clean up dead bodies Fungi (mushrooms) Bacteria Worms Food Chain All of these organisms interact to form a food chain Almost always stars with a plant (a producer) An herbivore eats the plant, then a carnivore eats the herbivore Grass mouse fox producer…consumer….consumer Food Webs Many animals are involved in Food Webs. More than one consumer eats the same type of food. Consumers also eat many types of foods. Food Web Example -Producer leaf, grass -Consumer(herbivore) caterpiller,cricket,mouse -Consumer (carnivore) robin, spider, fox, bear -Decomposer fungi, bacteria *remember, decomposers eat dead animals For more Food Chain Fun… Visit these cool Websites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewi se/science/living/03b_act.shtml The Balance of Nature: Food Chains & Webs PlanetPals Create a Food Web Summary The students learned that all of the organisms on Earth are connected through the food chain. Humans are even part of it. We eat plants and animals. If we lived in the wild, we may become prey to larger animals (sharks) Mini-Quiz Let’s See What You Remember! Which One is a Producer? Oops…try again! *hint: where does a producer get its food from? Correct! What type of organisms eat dead plants and animals? Pick one Carnivores Omnivores Decomposers Herbivores Oops…try again! Correct! Which organism is eaten? Predator or Prey Oops…try again! Correct! What do omnivores eat? Meat Plants Plants and animals Potato chips Oops…try again! Correct! Nice Job!! Quiz completed Don’t forget to visit the cool websites about the food chain Visit the library and find a book about your favorite animal What kind of food does it eat? Does anything eat that animal? SOL 3.5 The student will investigate and understand relationships among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains a. producer, consumer, decomposer b. herbivore, carnivore, omnivore c. producer, prey