Food Chain

• a transfer of energy through a series of organisms that use each other for food.

• the arrows point away from the producer (the plant) toward the consumers. It shows the FLOW of energy towards the eater.

• food chains only include BIOTIC factors NOT abiotic ones.

Producers

• at the start of the food chain

• they make their own food using energy from the sun

• plants are an example of producers

Consumers

• animals that eat other plants and animals

• they obtain their energy from other plants and animals.

Predator

• An animal that eats other animals

• Highest up on the food chain

Prey

• Known as the animals that the predators eat

• Lower on the food chain