The+Food+Chain

There are so many animals in the world. Each animal needs energy to survive, and animals get their energy from food. Some animals get their energy from the sun and some animals get their energy from plants. Other animals can get their energy from other animals. A food chain is used to organize animlas by what they eat for energy. For the most part, food chains begin with small animals and continues all the way up to the largest of animals. A food chain usually shows an animal then has an arrow pointing to another animal. This arrow shows the flow of energy. Let's look at this food chain.



The energy is flowing from the sun to the grass to the deer to the wolf. This means that the grass absrobs the energy from the sun. The deer eats the grass for energy and the wolf eats the deer for energy.

In a food chain there are producers and consumers. The food chain begins with producers and ends with consumers.

Look online for another picture of a food chain (or food web) and tell me which way the energy is flowing. In other words, you must say from what the living thing gets its energy from.