Food Web

In my food web the sun provides the energy needed to run the process.
Lettuce is my producer.  It provides it's own food.  I picked lettuce to by my producer because it is eaten by a wide variety of animals.
Consumers do not produce their own food.  My primary consumers are mice, crickets, and groundhogs.  My secondary consumers are foxes, snakes, bobcats and owls.
My top predators are owls and bobcats.  A top predator is not eaten by any other animals.

Toby, 5th grade

Food Web

A food web always begins with the sun because it produces energy for all plants.  The small plants are producers, meaning it makes it's own food.  Then the fish eats the plants, leaving the fish an omnivore.  An omnivore eats plants and animals.  Next, the penguin eats the fish and is eaten by a Leopard Seal.  They are both carnivores, which means they only eat meat.  The Orca, who is also a carnivore, eats the penguin as well as the Leopard Seal.  This method will repeat itself over and over again.

Daysia, 5th grade