Top PredatorMongolian Saker Falcon Food Chains

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Food Chains

• A food chain shows the different organisms that live in a habitat, and what eats what

• Food chains show a transfer of energy from one life form to another

Producers• A food chain always starts with a producer• A producer is an organism that makes its own food• A plant uses light from the sun, carbon dioxide and water to

produce food in the form of glucose/sugar• This process is called …… Photosynthesis

Consumers• Animals cannot make their own food, they eat (consume)

plants or other animals• Animals are consumers, there are 3 groups

Herbivore

Carnivore

Omnivore

only eats

only eats

eats both

Decomposers

• Fungi and bacteria are decomposers• They are important part of the food chain, they break down

material and return nutrients to the soil

Animals eat food to get energy

Producer

Consumer

Consumer

Consumer

Herbivore

Omnivore

Carnivore

Primary consumer

Secondary consumerTertiary consumer

Why is it important to conserve falcons?

• Top predator in the food chain• A loss or reduction in numbers of predators can effect the

food web and ecosystem.• If rodent populations increase, grasslands can be effected,

which in turn affects livestock

……………… is an animal that eats other animals

The animal the predator eats is called ………..

Most prey have more than one …………………

When all food chains in a habitat are joined up together they form a ….

Predator

prey

predator

FOOD WEB

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