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Food chains Leaf Sloth

All living things in the forest rely on each
other for food. These links can be shown
in a food chain. All food chains need

a producer, a consumer, and a decomposer
to work well. If just one part of the food Producer

chain disappears, then it may cause many Food chains start with a
animals to go hungry! producer, usually a green
plant. Plants are producers
because they make their own
food from water and sunlight.

Complete the food chains

Use the clues and the descriptions below to Leaf Slug
complete the food chains. A

Cricket
1 There are huge numbers of these
chirping primary consumers in
forests. They like to eat plants.

Rabbit
2 The teeth of these herbivores keep
growing, but are worn down by
all the grass they eat. Deer
B

Maggots ?
3 These wriggling creatures look like Clue:
small worms. They eat dead flesh,
helping to recycle animal bodies. Food chains usually
start with a plant.

4 Grass
Grass is a producer that is eaten by
a huge number of herbivores all Seeds
C
over the world.

5 Frog
Without these slippery carnivores,
the world would be overrun with
insects and other pests.
Seeds are
parts of plants
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