What is a food chain? Flashcards

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What is a food chain?

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It shows how each animal gets its food. Food chains are one of the ways that living things depend on each other to stay alive.

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What are herbivores?

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They get their energy from eating plants.

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What are carnivores?

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They get their energy from eating meat.

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What are omnivores?

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They get their energy from eating both plants and meat.

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Explain what happens in a food chain?

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Energy travels from the Sun and is transferred through plants to animals. The path that energy takes is called an energy chain or a food chain.

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Does all the energy stay in the food chain?

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Not all the energy from the Sun stays in the food chain, some are lost in the process

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