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Plants use the sun’s energy to
grow leaves, roots and stems.
Animals and fungi can use the plants
as their food.
What is special about plants? How are they able to use the sun’s energy to make food for
themselves?
Inside many plant cells are special structures called chloroplasts that can use
the sun’s energy to make sugars.
Chloroplasts can use carbon dioxide and water from the air
and use the sun’s energy to fuel a chemical reaction that forms
sugar molecules.
Carnivores
• Secondary consumers
• They eat other animals, which gives them the energy they need to survive.
Tertiary Consumers • Also carnivores
• They eat other carnivores for the energy they need to survive.
Where is my food?
What happens when the food an animal eats cannot be found for the entire year in one place?
What Do You Think?What would a bear eat from a “forest restaurant”?
What would a fox or a rabbit eat?
What Do You Think?The next time you sit down to eat dinner…
imagine the food chains for the things on your dinner plate!
Peggy Greb, USDA.
How will we learn about the Food Production Department?
Owl pellet dissection
Plant/Harvest Vegetables