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Understanding Food Chains

The document discusses food chains and how they work. It explains that a food chain starts with plant life and ends with an animal. Plants are producers that make their own food, while animals and consumers that eat either plants or other animals. There are three types of consumers - herbivores that eat only plants, carnivores that eat other animals, and omnivores that eat both plants and animals. Decomposers break down decaying matter and release nutrients back into the food chain.

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Understanding Food Chains

The document discusses food chains and how they work. It explains that a food chain starts with plant life and ends with an animal. Plants are producers that make their own food, while animals and consumers that eat either plants or other animals. There are three types of consumers - herbivores that eat only plants, carnivores that eat other animals, and omnivores that eat both plants and animals. Decomposers break down decaying matter and release nutrients back into the food chain.

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Food Chains

A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. Some animals eat plants and some animals
eat other animals. For example, a simple food chain links the trees, the giraffes (that eat trees),
and the lions (that eat the giraffes). Each link in this chain is food for the next link. A food
chain always starts with plant life and ends with an animal.
 Plants are called producers because they use light energy from the Sun to produce food
(sugar) from carbon dioxide and water.
 Animals cannot make their own food so they must eat plants and/or other animals. They are
called consumers. There are three groups of consumers.
a. Animals that eat ONLY PLANTS are called herbivores (or primary consumers).
b. Animals that eat OTHER ANIMALS are called carnivores.
 carnivores that eat herbivores are called secondary consumers
 carnivores that eat other carnivores are called tertiary consumers.
 Animals and people who eat BOTH animals and plants are called omnivores.
Then there are decomposers (bacteria and fungi) which feed on decaying matter. These
decomposers speed up the decaying process that releases mineral salts back into the food chain.

A-Read the text and write True or False. (5x2= 10 points)

1. A food chain starts with an animal and ends with plant life ……………

2. Carnivores eat other animals ……………

3. Herbivores only eat plants ……………

4. There are two groups of consumers ……………

5. Animals cannot make their own food ……………

B- Answer the questions according to the text (3x5= 15 points)

1. Why are plants called producers?

2. What do decomposers do?

3. What are omnivores?

C- Report the following sentences (6x5= 30 points)

1. Helen:"I am writing a letter."

2. Lisa:"Tim went to the stadium yesterday."

3. Patricia:"My mother will come to London next weekend."

4. Mike and John: “We can speak French well.”

5. George: “ I have never been to the USA”

6. David: “I work for an international company”

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