Food Chain Rainforest Animals

Children need to sort through strips of paper each with a living thing printed on and identify the energy source producers primary consumers top consumers language used for year 4 and decomposers.

Food chain rainforest animals. Every organism needs to obtain energy in order to live. An open ended activity involving sorting and classifying which was used as the main part of a Science lesson graded outstanding. A food chain is the sequence of who eats whom in a biological community an ecosystem to obtain nutrition.

Many rainforest birds such as most parrots and cockatoos are herbivores and dont eat insects. The Scavengers the butterflies and other insects. For starters almost all animals are warm blooded and therefore are live-birth bearers indicating they provide start to reside fresh instead of putting eggs that require to hatch.

Each plant or animal in the food chain eats the one below it and is eaten by the one above it. Food to the animal that eats it. Bats eat fruits from trees a kookaburra can eat a small bat an eagle can eat a kookaburra.

Secondary consumers These are the organisms or animals that eat the primary consumer. An important link in the food chain of the tropical rainforest birds spread seeds around the forest as they fly adding to the diversity and richness of the forest. The first animal to eat in the food chain.

Sloths howler monkeys woolly monkeys toucans and many others. Although humans have done much to harm rain forest food chains they depend on them too. A network of many food chains is called a food web.

The larger animals eat the smaller animals. Deforestation is already a problem in the rainforest. The Decomposers or Detrivores mushrooms.