How Does the Energy Flow Through the Food Chain

• Science
• 4th Grade

The sun provides what?

Purpose of Lesson
How has our background knowledge
helped with understanding the energy flow through the food chain?


Could you complete this mind map with ideas?

Complete this
Mind Map
with your ideas.

Now check with your
partner and share ideas.

Zoo animals are even part of a food chain.  

In the following slide you will use your thinking to answer the questions.

What does the giraffe eat
in its natural habitat?

Do giraffes get eaten by other animals? If so, which ones?

Think Time
What would happen if an ecosystem experienced a decline in a major consumer?

Am I proficient on Learn Goal 9?

Living things that eat other living things are called what?

1. energy
2. humans
3. Mrs. Cole
4. animals

Someone who eats only plants are called what?

1. herbivore
2. organisms
3. decomposer
4. carnivore

The difference between a food chain and a food web is what?

1. food webs are just for raccoons.
2. food chains follow one path and food webs are overlapping.
3. There is no such thing as a food web, because it part of a spider.
4. Both have consumers and producers.