Food Chain

Food Chain

A food chain shows how energy passes from one living thing to another in an ecosystem. It always starts with producers, like plants, which make their own food using sunlight through a process called photosynthesis. Herbivores, or primary consumers, eat the plants to get energy. Then, ...

Every living thing in a forest—plants, insects, birds, and other animals are part of a complex food chain.

A food chain shows how energy and nutrients move from one living thing to another.

Using energy from the sun, plants—known as producers—create food through photosynthesis.

These plants are consumed by primary consumers li...