How it works
Food Chain in bubble letters, Food over Chain on one sideways sheet, nearly twice as tall in Fredoka as the two words on one line. Fredoka keeps all four rings white: two o's, a d and an a.
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Labels for the links
The row under the sheet labels each link: Producer for the plant that makes its own food, Consumer for whatever eats another living thing, Decomposer for the fungi and bacteria that break down what dies. Primary / Consumer, Secondary / Consumer and Tertiary / Consumer number the eaters, and Apex / Predator tops the chain. Older classes add Autotroph, Heterotroph, Trophic / Levels, Energy / Flow and Energy / Pyramid.
Who eats what
Herbivore, Carnivore and Omnivore sort animals by diet, Predator and Prey by who hunts whom; a Scavenger feeds on what is already dead. Who Eats / What heads a sorting wall and Ecosystem a unit. Ocean / Food Chain, Forest / Food Chain, Pond / Food Chain, Desert / Food Chain and Arctic / Food Chain title one chain each.
- The five habitat titles print at one letter size, set by Food Chain, the wider line of each.
- Herbivore, Carnivore and Omnivore print at nearly one size; Prey prints about twice as tall.
- Decomposer prints smaller than Producer and Consumer. Typed on three lines of one sheet, the three share one size.
Questions and answers
How do you draw food chain in bubble letters?
Pencil Food on one line and Chain under it. Round every stroke into a fat outline, keep a ring in both o's, the d and the a, set a round dot over the i, then rub out the pencil.
What is a carnivore?
An animal that eats other animals. Herbivores eat plants and omnivores eat both. The ending -vore comes from the Latin vorare, to devour.
Which way do the arrows point in a food chain?
From the thing that is eaten to the thing that eats it: grass, then rabbit, then fox. The arrows show how energy flows from prey to predator, in the words of NOAA, the US ocean and weather agency.
What is the order of a food chain?
Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer: a plant, the animal that eats it, and the animals that eat that one in turn. An apex predator, with no natural predators in the chain, ends it.