Learn about food chains.
NARRATOR: This is grass…
Grass is pretty easy going, aren't you grass? She likes sunbathing a lot.
She's pretty clever, because she makes her own food, just from sunshine. That's called being a producer.
So she doesn't need to eat anything. But of course, sometimes she gets eaten…
This is hare. Hare is not a producer.
He can't make his own food, so he eats the grass. We call him a consumer.
He's pretty crazy about grass, eats it all day long. Not a bad life really.
But hares don't just eat, sometimes they get eaten…
Meet lion. Big tough guy. Lot of teeth.
He's a predator. That means he hunts other animals.
But actually in a way, he's making a living from sunshine too. The energy grass gets from the Sun, is then eaten by hare, and eventually eaten by lion.
Everything on earth is actually living on sunshine energy. Even tough guys like lion.
That's odd. I must have hit the zoom button by mistake… Unless it's coming closer!
Oh dear…
Food chain
A food chain shows how plants and animals get their energy.
Producers and consumers
A food chain always starts with a producer. This is an organism that makes its own food. Most food chains start with a green plant, because plants can make their food by photosynthesis.
A living thing that eats other plants and animals is called a consumer.
Predators and prey
A predator is an animal that eats other animals. The animals that predators eat are called prey. Predators are found at the top of a food chain.
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