Food Chains and Food Webs

• Food Chain- a model of the order in which living things get the food they need.  Most food chains start with the sun.
• An animal that hunts and eats other animals for food is a predator
• Animals that are hunted and eaten are called prey
• some food chains are on land, some are in water
• some are on both land and water!
• some animals, like worms, eat plants and animals that are dead.  They break them down into smaller pieces.
• A food web is two or more food chains that are connected.
• sometimes one animal is food for many animals
• sometimes one predator eats many kinds of prey