Today we are going to learn about Food

Today we are going to learn about: Food Chains

KEY WORDS food chain consumer predator producer prey

Task 1 – Sorting living things Consumer or producer? What do you think? Producers are plants they make their own food Consumers are animals they eat food

Task 2 – Making food chains eaten by direction of energy flow What eats what?

Task 3 – Making food chains • Design your own food chain – use things in your tray or make up your own • Draw or write it on paper • Describe it to a friend CHECK Does it start with a producer? Are the arrows going in the right direction?

Challenge Use these words to label your food chain: eaten by consumer predator producer prey

Food chains A food chain shows where the energy goes in a food chain (in other words, “what gets eaten by what”): eaten by Cabbage eaten by Rabbit Plants convert the sun’s energy into food eaten by Stoat Fox The arrows indicate where the energy is going

Ten Questions Subject: Food Chains

Ten Questions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1. Give an example of a consumer that makes honey? • A bee

2. What must a food chain always begin with? • A plant • A producer Cabbage Cactus

3. Name a producer eaten by rabbits. • Cabbage, carrot or grass. eaten by Cabbage

4. Are penguins the prey of polar bears? • No because penguins live in the Antarctic and polar bears live in the Arctic.

5. Are hedgehogs producers or consumers? • They are CONSUMERS because they eat (consume) food (slugs and worms).

6. Write down a food chain involving the animal below. • Seaweed wrasse sea otter polar bear

7. What do the arrows in a food chain show? eaten by What eats what. direction of energy flow

8. Name a predator and its prey.

9. Name a consumer. • Any animal

10. Name a producer • Any plant.

Congratulations! • You can make food chains which start with a producer and end with a consumer • You know the difference between prey and predator • You can put the arrows in the right direction and you know what they mean