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Key Stage 1
Meaning
A diagram used to show which creatures eat which other creatures in a habitat.
About Food Chains
- Food chains always start with a plant.
- Food chains use arrows to show which animals are eaten by which other animals. The arrow points from the food to the animal that eats it.
- You do not need to draw your own creatures in a food chain, you can just write their names.
Examples
In this food chain the leaf is eaten by the caterpillar. The caterpillar is eaten by the chameleon. |
In this food chain The grass is eaten by the grasshopper and the grasshopper is eaten by the snake. |
Apple → Fly → Frog → Hawk Seaweed → Turtle → Shark Bush → Mountain Goat → Snow Leopard Leaf → Termite → Vole → Fox → Eagle