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A food chain shows how energy moves from one living thing to another.

It starts with plants and ends with animals that hunt other animals.

1. Starts with plants (they make their own food).

2. Animals eat plants to get energy.

3. Bigger animals eat smaller animals.

4. Energy moves step-by-step from one living thing to another.

Producers: are living things that make their own food.

Examples:

Green plants

Grass

Trees

Algae

Moss

Phytoplankton

1. They use sunlight to make food.

2. They start every food chain.

3. They give energy to all other living things.

4. They are mostly green plants and algae.

Consumers: a consumer is a living organism that cannot make its own food and must eat plants or other animals to get energy.

Cow (herbivore)

Lion (carnivore)

Human (omnivore)

Eagle (carnivore)

1. Consumers cannot make their own food.

2. They eat plants or other animals for energy.

3. They are divided into herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.

4. All animals are consumers.