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.

Use 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 verify the accuracy of the chains.

This set includes:

• food chain information page
• simple food chain diagram
• complex food chain diagram
• an example of a terrestrial food chain
• an example of a marine food chain
• 6 food chains with 3 links (control chart & 18 pictures)
• 5 food chains with 4 links (control chart & 20 pictures)
• 5 food chains with 5 links (control chart & 25 pictures)
• food chain pyramid (colored, labeled, blackline master)
• set of green arrows

The cards are in a three-part format:

• cards with labels
• cards without labels
• labels

To use three-part cards, match the labels to the corresponding pictures. Verify the matches using the control cards with the labels.

Picture cards are approx. 2¼" x 2¼".

This file is in PDF format.