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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 (use arrows to show the direction):
🌿 Part 2: Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
4. Match each word with its correct meaning:
1. Producer
2. Consumer
3. Decomposer
A. Animals that eat plants or other animals
B. Plants that make their own food from sunlight
C. Organisms that break down dead plants and animals
5. Check all the producers (plants that make their own food):
Grass
Rabbit
Tree
Flowers
Hawk
Seaweed
🐰 Part 3: Animals in Food Chains
6. Circle the correct answer: What does a rabbit eat?
Other rabbits
Grass and plants
Hawks
7. Fill in the blanks to complete this food chain:
_______ → Rabbit → _______
Hint: What does a rabbit eat? What eats a rabbit?
8. Check all the consumers (animals that eat other living things):
Worm
Mouse
Grass
Cat
Fish
Flowers
🍄 Part 4: Decomposers and Food Chain Thinking
9. What do decomposers do? Write your answer:
10. Circle the decomposers:
Mushrooms
Rabbit
Worms
Grass
11. Think about it: What would happen if all the rabbits disappeared from this food chain: Grass → Rabbit → Hawk?
12. Draw and label your own food chain using New Zealand animals and plants:
Ideas: kiwi bird, kauri tree, tuatara, fern, possum, native fish
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