Rainforest Animals And Plants Food Chain

Each plant or animal in the food chain eats the one below it and is eaten by the one above it.

Rainforest animals and plants food chain. Check out the food web and food chain. The Primary Producers of this forest are the plants that use their chlorophyll to create food for their own growth as well for the animals. Food webs are much more complicated which makes them much more interesting.

Every organism needs to obtain energy in order to live. Trees such as rubber trees giant Shorea trees banana trees cecropia trees and giant red cedars are some impressive rainforest trees. There are four main areas of animals of the rainforest food chain.

In the tropical rainforest this might be a legume that the blue morpho caterpillar likes to munch on. First Level - Autotrophs aka Primary Producers. Apart from being a source of food plants provide animals shelter and a place to hide from predators.

Rainforest plants and animals are all connected through many different food chains. How food chains and food webs represent the flow of energy and matter. How about all of the above.

A food chain is the sequence of who eats whom in a biological community an ecosystem to obtain nutrition. Plants start the food chain. Second or third level consumers.

The animals could get energy by eating other plants or animals. This rainforest food chain coloring book is a great way to introduce your children to the rainforest and to some of the kinds of plants and animals found there. Posted by Tropical Rain Forest at 644 PM.