echoesof.science · Ages 6–7
Who eats whom?
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All living things need food. A food chain shows who eats whom.
Plants are producers: they make their own food using sunlight. Every food chain starts with a plant (or tiny plant-like living things in the sea).
Animals are consumers: they eat plants or other animals. A rabbit eats grass and a fox eats the rabbit: grass → rabbit → fox. The arrows show where the food goes.
Animals that eat plants are called herbivores. Animals that eat meat are carnivores. Animals that eat both, like people, are omnivores.
Experiment: Make a paper food chain
- Draw a plant (grass) on a green strip.
- Draw an animal that eats grass (a grasshopper) on another strip.
- Draw an animal that eats the grasshopper (a rat), then a snake that eats the rat, then a hawk that eats the snake.
- Make the grass strip into a loop and glue it. Push the next strip through it, make a loop and glue. Keep going in order to make a paper chain.
- Hold your chain up. Which one is the producer? Which one is at the top?
- Add a brown loop for the decomposers (mushrooms and tiny bacteria) and join it back to the grass. Now the chain goes round!
| Living thing | Producer or consumer? | What does it eat? |
|---|---|---|
| Grass | ||
| Grasshopper | ||
| Rat | ||
| Snake | ||
| Hawk |
Questions
Draw a food chain with three living things. Draw arrows to show where the food goes.
🍎Is a rabbit a producer or a consumer?
producer / consumer
What would happen to the fox if there were no rabbits to eat?
Sources for every fact on this sheet: echoesof.science/school/food-chains/sources/