Module B Chapter 1 Plants and Energy

Lesson 2 Food For Energy

Getting Energy
All living things need energy to live.
Producers - Plants	Consumers- Animals
Use energy from the sun to produce or make their own food/sugar.	People and animals get the energy they need from the food they eat.
	Some consumers eat only plants. (Herbivore)
	Some consumers eat only meat. (Carnivore)
	Some consumers eat both plants and meat. (Omnivore)

Food Chains

Tomato plant uses energy from the sun to make sugars/food.

Sugars and starches stored in a plant provide energy for a consumer - caterpillar.

The blue jay gets the energy it needs from eating the caterpillar.

The cat gets the energy it needs to live from eating the blue jay.

The passing of energy from the sun through a series of living things is called a food chain.

Food chains exist in all habitats; land, water, soil, etc.

	Every living thing is a link in a food chain.
	All food chains begin with producers/plants.
	All consumers depend on producers in some way for their energy.