Food Chains

Louise Spilsbury

Description

Animals need to eat to survive. What is eating what? Follow the food chains to find out. Learn how energy from food flows from one living thing to another - and then another! Find out about animals that are producers, consumers and decomposers. From forests to the oceans and skies, food chains are always at work.

Informations

• Publié par: Capstone Global Library
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781398218246
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

Extrait

Food Chains
Level 27
Non-fiction
Word count: 1,366
Curriculum links: animals/animal science, biology, plants/plant science
Te xt type: informational
Extending vocabulary:
carbon dioxide, connected, herds, linked, liquid, sense
Example questions:
• Why isn’t a boa constrictor at the top of a desert food chain?
• What other animals are in ocean food chains?
• Why might some plankton be in the first group of food chains and othersin the second?
• How do decomposers such as mushrooms help to start a new food chain?
• Do animals at the top of their food chains ever get eaten? Why or whynot?
Programme link:
The Ungrateful Tiger (F)
FOOD CHAINS
by Louise Spilsbury
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Editorial credits Gina Kammer, editor; Dina Her, designer; Kelly Garvin, media researcher; Katy LaVigne, premedia specialist
Food Chains ISBN: 978 1 3982 0201 6ISBN: 978 1 3982 1824 6 (ebook)
CONTENTS
What is a food chain? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How do food chains start? . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Next in the food chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
A rainforest food chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A desert food chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
A grassland food chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
An ocean food chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
New food chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32