General Background

Food Chains Worksheet Name: ______

General Background

1. What do all living things need to survive? How are plants different from animals? ______

2. What does a food chain show? ______

3. What does the picture of the arrow pointing from the rabbit to the fox mean? (see top, right-hand side of this sheet) ______

“Bigger Food Chains.” (Bigger chains tab on menu bar at the top)

4. What is the decomposer in the bottom food chain and what does it do? ______

“Parts of the Food Chain” (left column)

5. What is an example of a producer? ______

6. What are the names of the 3 groups of consumers? Give an example of each below. a. ______: ______b. ______: ______c. ______: ______

7. What is an example of a decomposer? ______

Play 2 different games:  Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers Game (top-left column) to practice identifying parts of a food chain.

 Game (tab on menu bar at top on right side) to practice making food chains. Making Food Chains:

Write your ideas for 5 food chains for your poster in the table below. First write an ecosystem and then list the producers, consumers, and decomposers that live in each ecosystem.

Ecosystem Producers Consumers Decomposers 1.