Rain Forest Food Chains

By Anne McMullen

The foliage is eaten by a mouse that's eaten by a bat that's eaten by a snake. This book explores the species and food chains and webs within a rain forest habitat, and discusses why these food chains and webs need to be protected.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Aug 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781484666005

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Protecting Food Chains: Rain Forest Food Chains by Heidi Moore

Contents

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What Is a Rain Forest Food Chain?

What Is a Rain Forest Habitat?

Where in the World Are Rain Forest Habitats?

What Are the Producers in Rain Forests?

What Are the Primary Consumers in Rain Forests?

What Are the Secondary Consumers in Rain Forests?

What Are the Decomposers in Rain Forests?

What Are Rain Forest Food Chains Like Around the World?

How Are Humans Harming Rain Forest Food Chains?

What Can You Do to Protect Rain Forest Food Chains?

Top 10 Things You Can Do to Protect Rain Forests

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What Is a Rain Forest Food Chain?

The warm, moist Amazon River basin is home to the world’s largest rain forest. Part the dense vegetation (plant life) and take a peek. Thousands of different plants and animals live here, between the damp ground and the treetops.

On the forest floor, a millipede munches a leaf. Soon a furry brown wolf spider inches closer. It traps the millipede and gobbles it up. Suddenly a brightly colored toucan leaves its treetop perch. Toucans mostly eat berries and seeds, but today it spies the wolf spider and glides down toward it. The toucan snatches the spider in its beak and swallows it whole.

When the toucan dies, decomposers such as bacteria will break down its body. Decomposers break down dead plant and animal material. This releases energy back into the water and soil. Soon other living things will take in that energy, and the process will begin again.

A reddish brown orangutan eating plants in the forest.

An orangutan crouches in the dense rain forest vegetation.

Food Chains

This process is called a food chain. A food chain shows how energy moves from one organism to another. An organism is any living thing. Energy moves from one living thing to another when one organism feeds on another.

Sometimes this process is shown using a food chain diagram. A food chain diagram has a series of arrows. The arrows show the flow of energy. Energy flows from the food to