What is a Food Chain?
A food chain shows how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from creature to creature. Food chains begin with plant-life, and end with animal-life. Some animals eat plants, some animals eat other animals.
producer - A green plant, which is the first food maker in a food chain. They are organisms that make their own food and energy using photosynthesis.
consumer - organisms that get their energy from consuming/eating other living things
decomposer - They are all living things that get energy by eating dead animals and plants and breaking down wastes of other animals. Decomposers are made up of the FBI (fungi, bacteria and invertebrates—worms and insects).
herbivore - eat PLANTS
carnivore - eat MEAT, other animals
omnivore - eat BOTH plants and animals
detritivore - eat DEAD or decaying plants or animals
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Learning About Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores
DaMaio (10:30) |
Learning About Food Chains
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Brainpop FoodChain (5:52)
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Norm & Cory – Tidbits: THE FOOD CHAIN (1:37) |
Magic School Bus: Gets Eaten (23:54) |
Food Chain and Food Web Lesson (3:02) Vocabulary
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Fabulous Food Chains: Crash Course Kids #7.1 |
Food Chains Compilation: Crash Course Kids - 15:56
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Food Chain | Food Web | Video for Kids
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Real Life Predator and Prey Interaction (2:16) |
The Food Chain by Odyssey Earth (4:49)
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The Dirt on Decomposers: Crash Course Kids #7.2 - 3:18
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Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain - John C. Moore
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What is a Food Web?
Food Web crash course |
Wild Kratts: Food Web |
Bill Nye: Food Web |