The

Food Chain
 What is food chain?
• It is a process in which energy gets
transferred from one organism to another.

• Therefore, each organisms in a food chain is

dependent on the next organism for its food.
 Producers
• Producers are the starting point of a food chain.

• Organisms that can make their own food (energy) are called
producers. The plant kingdom makes up the producers.
• Every food chain involves the Sun. All
energy comes from the Sun and plants make
food with that energy. This process is known
as photosynthesis.
• Plants are eaten by other organisms to get
energy. They get nutrition from it.
 Producers Bug
Sun

Chicken
Human Being
 Consumers
• Consumers are the next link in a food chain.
• They are animals that eat plants (producers) and other animals.
• Humans are at the end of the food chain. They eat both plants and
animals. Hence, they are consumers too.
 Rabbit

Grass
Fox
The food chain begins with a plant. The plant is eaten by a rabbit.
The rabbit is then eaten by a larger animal, fox. Both the rabbit
and the fox, in this food chain, are called consumers.
 Decomposers

• Decomposers are the last link in the food chain.

• They break down/ decompose the dead bodies into nutrients
and return it to the soil. The producers use these nutrients
from the soil to make their own food.
• The food chain begins all over again.
• If any one level from the food chain is removed, the
whole ecosystem will collapse.
• There are more than 100,000 different types of
decomposers.
Links of the food chain
Examples of Food Chain…
 Deer Lion

Plants