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Food Chain Basics

Georgia, Oliver and Ari are exploring a fossil site. Nearby, they spot living things and clues about who eats whom. Read each clue, then solve the food-chain puzzles. An arrow points from the food to the animal that eats it.

Follow the energy

Plants use sunlight to make their own food. Animals get energy by eating plants or other animals. The arrow shows where the energy goes: grass → grasshopper → bird.

1.The grasshopper eats grass. In grass → grasshopper, what does the arrow point towards?
  • The food
  • The animal that eats the food
  • The sunlight
2.In the food chain grass → grasshopper → bird, which living thing is the producer?
3.Circle the two consumers in grass → grasshopper → bird.
  • Grass
  • Grasshopper
  • Bird

Clues from the fossil site

Oliver finds a nibbled leaf and sees a caterpillar on a nearby plant. Georgia spots a small bird searching for caterpillars.

4.Put these in order to show who eats whom: bird, plant, caterpillar.
5.True or false: A caterpillar is a producer because it eats leaves.
TrueFalse
6.A mushroom grows on a dead leaf. What job can mushrooms do in nature?
  • Make sunlight
  • Help break down dead things
  • Hunt birds
7.A tūī drinks nectar from flowers. Which is the food, and which is the consumer?
8.The grasshoppers become scarce. What might happen to the birds that eat them?
9.Ari spots grass, a rabbit and a hawk. Draw these as a food chain with arrows pointing in the right direction. Add sunlight entering the chain.

3 printable pages

  • Food Chain Basics, page 1 of 3: Follow the energy

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  • Food Chain Basics, page 2 of 3: Clues from the fossil site

    Page 2

  • Food Chain Basics, page 3 of 3: 9. Ari spots grass, a rabbit and a hawk. Draw these as a food chain with arrows

    Page 3

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