Food Chains

A food chain shows how energy and nutrients move from one living thing to another in an ecosystem.

A producer is a living thing, like a plant, that makes its own food using sunlight.

A consumer is a living thing that cannot make its own food and needs to eat plants or animals.

A decomposer is a living thing, like bacteria or fungi, that breaks down dead plants and animals.

Herbivores are consumers that eat only plants.

Carnivores are consumers that eat only other animals.

An omnivore is a consumer that eats both plants and animals.

The arrow points to the organism that gets the energy.

A wolf is an example of a carnivore.

A rabbit is an example of a herbivore.