Food Chains and Food Webs

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Food Chains and Food Webs

• Where do animals get the energy to move and grow?

By Patsy Bouvet
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What is a Food Chain?

• A food chain shows how living things get their
  food.
• A food chain is categorized into producers and
  consumers.

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Plants are Producers

• Plants get their energy directly from the sun.
  
• In a process called photosynthesis, plants turn
  light energy from the sun into sugar.

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There are 3 types of consumers
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Example of A Desert Food Chain
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What is A Food Web?

• A food web is an interconnected food chain. Food
  webs are more accurate of how nature works since
  most animals eat more than one kind of food.

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Example of an Ocean Food Web