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Food Chain Basics
🌱 Part 1: What is a Food Chain?
1. Circle the correct answer: What is a food chain?
A chain made of food
A sequence showing who eats whom in nature
A shopping list for food
2. Fill in the blank:
A food chain shows how energy moves from the _______ to plants and then to animals.
3. Draw a simple food chain with three parts (grass → rabbit → hawk):
🌿 Part 2: Producers
4. What are producers?
Animals that eat other animals
Plants that make their own food from sunlight
Things that break down dead plants
5. Tick all the producers you can find:
Grass
Trees
Rabbit
Flowers
Hawk
Seaweed
6. Why are plants called producers?
🐰 Part 3: Consumers
7. What are consumers?
Plants that make food
Animals that eat plants or other animals
Things that break down dead things
8. Match each consumer with what it eats:
1. Rabbit
2. Hawk
3. Cow
A. Grass and plants
B. Small animals like rabbits
C. Grass and hay
9. Draw your favourite consumer and what it eats:
🍄 Part 4: Decomposers
10. What do decomposers do?
Make food from sunlight
Eat other animals
Break down dead plants and animals
11. Tick all the decomposers:
Worms
Mushrooms
Grass
Bacteria
Rabbit
12. Why are decomposers important in nature?
🔄 Part 5: Putting It All Together
13. Complete this food chain by filling in the blanks:
_______ (producer) → Rabbit (consumer) → _______ (consumer) → Decomposers
14. What would happen if all the rabbits disappeared from this food chain?
15. Create your own food chain using New Zealand animals and plants:
16. Label your food chain above with P (Producer), C (Consumer), or D (Decomposer).
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