Animals In The Rainforest Food Chain

Children may need to use their own research skills to check if their interpretation of the food chain is accurate before recording it on the table.

Animals in the rainforest food chain. EcosystemA combination of living and non-living things that are living together in an environment. Mushrooms grasses and wild flowers grow among the mosses. Every living thingfrom one-celled algae to giant blue whalesneeds food to surviveEach food chain is a possible pathway that energy and nutrients can follow through the ecosystem.

The Primary Producers of this forest are the plants that use their chlorophyll to create food for their own growth as well for the animals. Forest Floor Food Web Food web Ecosystems. Birds eat nectar from flowers a quoll can eat a bird an owl can eat a quoll.

For example anacondas dont just eat birds. These animals feed on the secondary consumers but dont have any predators of their own. Rainforest Food Chains by Bobbie Kalman is perfect for children of about ages 5 to 9.

In temperate rainforests primary consumers include monkeys snakes elks and other small mammals. This resource encourages children to construct and interpret a variety of food chains identifying. The rainforest has thousands of different food chains.

Simplifying the food chain of the rainforest is somewhat helpful for understanding it better so lets start with the four main levels of the food chain or web. For example in the rain forest food chain to the left the arrow leads from the figs to the sloth from the sloth to the jaguar and so on. Primary consumers - These are the organisms or animals that eat the producer ie.

On the bottom right there is an example of a food chain and a food web. This is another opportunity to discuss why each plant or animal feeds on another particular plant or animal as well as to work on memory and vocabulary. First Plants flowers fruit leaves plankton insects larvae spiders Second Plants insects and plankton eat frogs fish bag ties possums malicious most birds kangaroos and kangaroo Third that eat small animals.