• Question: What is the food chain?

    Asked by SianConnell14 to Samantha, Paul, Glafkos, Clare on 10 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Clare Devery

      Clare Devery answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      A food chain is a pathway that shows how each living thing gets the food that it needs in order to survive. It generally begins with green plants and ends with the deadliest predator. An example of a food chain would be grass – grasshopper – frog – snake – hawk. In this food chain the hawk is the main predator. It feeds on the snake, which eats the grasshopper and so on.

      Food chains can interlink, which is known as a food web. In our case, the hawk might actually eat a mouse as well as the snake. The mouse may have eaten a beetle, which may have eaten a leaf. There are thousands of food chains out there…not entirely appetising though I’ll admit!
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    • Photo: Paul Booker

      Paul Booker answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      The food chain is just a diagram of how energy moves from the sun, through plants to animals!

    • Photo: Samantha Terry

      Samantha Terry answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      all I know is that we as humans are at the top!

    • Photo: Glafkos Havariyoun

      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Think of what you eat to grow and think what that eats to grow and then what that eats to grow and then what that needs to grow etc. This is the food chain 🙂

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