Each animal is built for one special place — its habitat. Tap an animal, then tap the habitat where it belongs.
Energy starts at the sun. Plants catch it and make food — they are producers. Animals that eat are consumers. A hunter is a predator; the one it hunts is its prey. Tap the cards in the right order.
1. Why couldn't a polar bear live in the desert? Its thick warm coat and fat would make it far too hot, and there's no ice, no seals to eat and little water. The desert can't give it what it needs.
2. Which way do the food-chain arrows point, and why? Towards the animal that eats — because that's the way the energy (the food) moves along the chain.
3. If all the plants died, what would happen to the rabbits, then the foxes? The rabbits would have nothing to eat and go hungry, so the foxes would lose their food too. Break the bottom of the chain and everything above it suffers.
4. Name a producer. Any green plant — grass, a leaf, a flower, seaweed. Producers make their own food from sunlight.
Every animal has a habitat that gives it the food, water and shelter it needs — that's why a camel and a polar bear could never swap homes.
Food chains show how energy passes from the sun to plants and on to the animals that eat them. Every link depends on the one below it.