food chains (ecology)

Explores twenty questions about food chains and webs, covering producers and consumers, herbivores, predators, scavengers, and other topics.

Provides an introduction to rain forest ecosystems, explains what food chains are, follows the food chain in a rain forest habitat from the sun, to plants, to herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and scavengers, examines a rain forest food web, and looks at threats to rain forests.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce readers to the food chain, explaining how living things find food and what different types of things animals, insects, birds, and fish eat and describing the natural life cycle on Earth and how it impacts the food chain.

Describes different kinds of forests, explains what food chains and food webs are, and discusses forest plants, herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers, as well as forest conservation.

Describes the importance of maintaining the food chain and what happens when a species disappears from an area.

Describes how food chains work and looks at examples from a small garden to a rain forest.

Introduces how a food chain works, tracing the connection between a wildflower in a field and a snake caught by a mother owl for her owlets. Lift-up flaps offer facts about the plant or animal featured on each page.

Portrays a day in the life of Earth Mother who, as she tends plants and animals around the world, meets three of her creations with advice on how to make the world more perfect.

A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to see how the food chain works in the ocean.