ClassX Video Lessons Youtube Channel Smile and Learn English FOOD CHAINS for Kids ????⬅????⬅????⬅???? Terrestrial and Aquatic ???? Episode 2
Hello! How are you today? Are you feeling a bit hungry? I have a yummy snack with me!
Food gives us the energy we need to play, study, think, and stay healthy. Without food, no living thing can survive. All living things get energy from the food they eat. The way energy moves from one living thing to another is called a food chain.
Food chains show us how energy passes from one living thing to another. We can find food chains in different places, called habitats. There are two main types of habitats: terrestrial (on land) and aquatic (in water).
Terrestrial food chains happen on land, like in deserts, forests, and savannas. Let’s look at an example:
Plants get energy from the sun, water, air, and nutrients from the soil. A caterpillar, which is a primary consumer, eats the plant’s leaves. Then, a centipede eats the caterpillar. Next, a mole eats the centipede. After that, a snake eats the mole, and finally, a hawk eats the snake.
When the hawk dies, tiny creatures called decomposers break down its body into nutrients that plants use to grow. And the food chain starts all over again!
Aquatic food chains happen in water, like in rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans. Let’s explore an example under the sea:
In the ocean, algae, which are tiny plants, get energy from the sun. Sea snails eat the algae. Then, an eel eats the snail. Next, a salmon eats the eel.
Salmon live in the ocean but swim to rivers to lay their eggs. A bear, which lives on land, comes to the river and eats the salmon. Even though the bear lives on land, this is an aquatic food chain because all the food comes from water habitats.
Let’s see if you can tell if these food chains are terrestrial or aquatic:
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Food Chain Charades: Gather your friends or family and play a game of charades using different animals from a food chain. Each person takes turns acting out an animal, and the others guess which animal it is and where it fits in the food chain. For example, you could pretend to be a caterpillar munching on leaves or a hawk flying high in the sky. This activity helps you remember the order of the food chain and understand how energy moves from one animal to another.
Create Your Own Food Chain: Use paper, crayons, and scissors to create a food chain mobile. Draw and cut out pictures of different animals and plants. Arrange them in the order of a food chain and hang them from a string to make a mobile. You can choose a terrestrial or aquatic food chain. As you create your mobile, think about how each living thing gets its energy and what it eats.
Food Chain Hunt: Next time you go for a walk in a park or near a pond, look for examples of food chains in nature. Can you spot a bird eating a worm or a fish swimming in the water? Try to identify the different parts of the food chain and think about how they are connected. Discuss with a friend or family member what you observe and how it relates to what you learned about food chains.
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Hello! How are you today? Are you hungry? I am a little, but I have a snack here. Yummy!
Food gives us the energy we need to play, study, think, and be healthy. Without food, no living thing can survive. Living things get energy from the food we eat. The way energy passes from one living thing to another is called a food chain.
We can classify food chains by the habitats where the living beings in the chain get their food. There are two general types of natural habitats: terrestrial and aquatic.
Living things in these habitats form many food chains, which we can classify as terrestrial food chains and aquatic food chains.
**Terrestrial Food Chains**
Terrestrial food chains exist both on land and below the surface of the Earth. For example, we find terrestrial food chains in deserts, forests, and savannas.
Let’s look at an example:
Plants get the energy they need from the sun, water, carbon dioxide, and nutrients from the soil. A primary consumer, like a caterpillar, eats the plant’s leaves. Then, the caterpillar goes underground, but a centipede eats it. Later, a mole comes along and eats the centipede. A while later, a hungry snake eats the mole, and then a hawk swoops down and eats the snake.
When the hawk dies, decomposers break down its body and turn it into nutrients that plants use to make their own food. This terrestrial food chain begins all over again.
**Aquatic Food Chains**
Aquatic food chains occur both in and near water. They happen in rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans, as well as along the coast.
The living things that make up aquatic food chains get their food from aquatic habitats. They can live in water, like fish, but can also live on land and eat aquatic living things, like bears.
Let’s explore an example under the sea:
In the ocean, we can find many producers, such as algae. Algae are plants that get energy through photosynthesis. Sea snails like them too. A hungry eel comes swimming along and eats the snail. Then, a salmon enters the picture and eats the eel.
Adult salmon live in salt water but lay their eggs in fresh water. So, the salmon leaves the ocean and swims upstream to lay her eggs in a river. Suddenly, a hungry bear walks down to the river looking for fish and finds a delicious salmon to eat.
Even though the bear lives on land, this is an aquatic food chain because all the living things in it get their food from aquatic habitats.
Let’s see if you can tell me: Are these terrestrial or aquatic food chains?
– Terrestrial or aquatic?
– Terrestrial, because the living beings in this food chain get their food from terrestrial habitats.
Let’s try another one:
– Aquatic or terrestrial?
– Aquatic, because the living beings in this food chain get their food from aquatic habitats.
Now for the last one:
– Terrestrial or aquatic?
– Aquatic, because although the bear lives in a terrestrial habitat, it and the rest of the living beings in this food chain get their food from aquatic habitats.
You did an awesome job! Food chains are so interesting. In this video, we have seen one way to classify them, but there is still more to learn. See you in the next episode! Bye-bye!
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