How would they fit into a food chain? What eats what and where does the energy come from to start with? These are some plants and animals you might be more familiar with. So we can see how the energy from the Sun is converted by plants then moves up the food chain to the top predator. Nothing else eats frogfish apart from sometimes other frogfish!Īn animal that isn't eaten by anything else is the top predator in a food chain. This is the strange but amazing frogfish. The primary consumer is prey and the secondary consumer is the predator. Animals that eat the primary consumers are secondary consumers. These little guys munch on the plankton like a caterpillar eating grass or leaves. The animals that eat the producers are called primary consumers. Animals get all the energy and nutrients they need to live from eating other plants and animals. A plant that converts the Sun's rays into energy is called a producer.
Here in the sea, seaweed and plankton do the job. Almost all food chains begin with a green plant. Well, green plants convert the Sun's rays into energy through a process called photosynthesis. So what happens to the Sun's energy when it reaches Earth? Is that possible? Can you guess where that could be?
Pizza doesn't come from Mars it originally comes from Italy, but if we look at something called a food chain we can see that all the energy animals get from their food originally comes from around 93 million miles away.