Week Eight - Science Focus - Nature Journal

The Lion - top of the food chain

A food chain shows how each living thing is dependent on another living thing for food and energy except plants. Plants and algae that photosynthesize make food from sunlight and carbon dioxide.  Food chains begin with plant-life, and end with animal-life. Some animals eat plants, some animals eat other animals.

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A Simple Food Chain

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A Complex Food Chain

Nature Journal

Today when you go outside, see if you can observe a food chain. Draw the plants, insects, and animals in the food chain you see.