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Hi guys, welcome back to another quick lesson with Anji.

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Today we're going to be talking about the food chain.

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So let's get started.

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All living things obtain food in different ways.

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First, let's talk about our producer in the food chain.

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Producers make their own food through a process called photosynthesis.

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So our producer in our food chain here is grass.

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And after our producer comes our primary consumer.

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Primary consumers, such as our little grasshopper here, eat plants and algae.

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Can you think of another primary consumer?

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What about a fish?

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A fish is also a primary consumer because fish eat algae.

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And because fish and grasshoppers only eat plants, that makes them vegetarians.

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So our primary consumers are vegetarians.

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So let's move on.

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After our primary consumer comes our secondary consumer.

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And of course, our secondary consumer here, our little bird, eats the primary consumers.

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So that makes them carnivores.

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After our secondary consumer comes our tertiary consumer.

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And in this case, it's a snake, a rattlesnake.

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And our rattlesnakes are also carnivores because they eat our secondary consumer, which is our little bird.

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Now, after our tertiary consumer, we come to our apex predator.

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An apex predator is an animal that has no natural enemies.

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That means that is an animal that is not going to get eaten by another animal.

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In our food chain here, it is a lynx.

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The lynx does not have any natural enemies.

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There are no other animals that are going to come and eat a lynx.

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Can you think of another apex predator?

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What about an alligator?

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There are no other different types of animals that are going to come and try to eat a huge alligator.

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So an alligator is also an apex predator.

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so now you might be asking Anji what comes after our apex predator well the chain then continues

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on to our decomposers and decomposers eat the remains of other living things after they die

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so after our apex predator or our tertiary predator dies it then lays on the ground in the

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forest or in the meadow, in the ocean, and it stays there while mushrooms or other fungi come

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and break down their remains. And after all the remains are broken down, it then gives life

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to plants like flowers and algae so that they can grow and they can keep the chain going.