Food Chain Examples For Kids

Using a deck of Food Chain Activity Cards kids can figure out how plants and animals are connected.

Food chain examples for kids. Below is a basic example of a food chain. A grasshopper will eat the grass and a mouse will eat the grasshopper. Carrot rabbit fox lion.

A food chain describes how different organisms eat each other starting out with a plant and ending with an animal. Example Food Chains. Each animal is a link in a food chain.

It starts with the primary source like the sun or hydrothermal vents where producers make food continues with consumers or animals who eat the food and ends with the top predator. An example of a simple food chain begins with grass that gets nutrients from soil and the sun. For example a zebra eats grass and the zebra is eaten by the lion.

Grass rabbit -fox. Since the lion is at the top of the food chain this means that nothing will eat him and he will only be eaten when he dies. Chicken nuggets New food.

The food chain looks like this. A food chain is a flow of energy from a green plant producer to an animal consumer and to another animal another consumer and so on. A hawk that eats the squirrel and other primary consumers is called a secondary consumer.

Easy Food Chains for Kids Build a food chain. This flash card set has vocabulary words and definitions for your unit on food chains. Discover how food chains work check out the different trophic levels in a food chain and explore some examples of food chains to understand the.