Food Chain Cards & Charts

Understanding food chains helps to highlight the natural world's interconnectedness, illustrating how organisms rely on one another for survival and the vital role each species plays in an ecosystem.

Utilize the picture cards to construct food chains with 3, 4, and 5 links that illustrate the flow of energy from plants to animals. Use the control charts to check the accuracy of your chains.

This set includes:

  • food chain information page
  • simple food chain diagram
  • complex food chain diagram
  • example of a terrestrial food chain
  • example of a marine food chain
  • 6 food chains with 3-links
      • control chart
      • 18 photographic cards (labeled)
  • 5 food chains with 4-links
      • control chart
      • 20 photographic cards (labeled)
  • 5 food chains with 5-links
      • control chart
      • 25 photographic cards (labeled)
  • food chain pyramid
      • 1 colored & labeled
      • 1 colored & labeled with images
      • 1 blackline master (no images/labels)
  • set of green arrows

Photographic cards are approx. 2¼" x 2¼".

This file is in PDF format.




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