Find out how the passage of energy from one organism to another creates a food chain. This book explores how the need to find and consume food creates an interlinking chain between organisms, from the producers of energy to the consumers. It also looks at what happens when a food chain breaks down and the disastrous consequences this can have for the organisms in the chain.

Includes fieldwork investigations that show how to identify food chains and webs and fascinating fact boxes that offer in-depth information on topics such as echolocation. An activity project shows students at Key Stage 3 how to build their own food web.

The six books in the Living Processes series look at the processes all living organisms must carry out in order to stay alive. From feeding and drinking through to breathing and reproducing, it explores the differing ways in which organisms carry them out.

This book is part of a book series called Living Processes .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Hachette Children's Group .

Dr Carol Ballard worked for many years as a school science co-ordinator. She is now a full-time writer of information books for children and teenagers.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Chapter 1 Food for life
• 2: Chapter 2 Plant producers
• 3: Chapter 3 Animal feeding
• 4: Chapter 4 Eat or be eaten!
• 5: Chapter 5 Food chains and food webs
• 6: Chapter 6 Changes to food chains
• 7: Your project: Build a food web
• 8: Glossary and Further information
• 9: Index